Pristimantis riveti (Despax, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis riveti

Hylodes riveti Despax, 1911, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 17: 92. Holotype: MNHNP 1902.357, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29. Type locality: "Equateur, . . . Mirador", 3800 m, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador. "Mirador is a mountain peak at an elevation of 3830 m near the border between Carchi and Sucumbíos Provinces", with the type locality presumably "at an elevation between 3500 and 3792 m", by Páez and Ron, 2019, ZooKeys, 868: 100. 

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) rivetiLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.

Pristimantis rivetiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) rivetiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Common Names

Despax's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Known with certainty only from the type locality (see comment and synonymy) from elevations  between 3500 and 3792 m on Mirador, a mountain peak near the border between Carchi and Sucumbíos Provinces, Ecuador. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. Synonymized with Eleutherodactylus curtipes by Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 266, but resurrected by Lynch, 1979, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 66: 37, who provided an account (unfortunately based on what has been subsequently named as Pristimantis lutzae according to Páez and Ron, 2019, ZooKeys, 868: 100), considered it most closely related to Eleutherodactylus balionotus, and noted previous misidentifications in the literature. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 128, provided distributional data for Ecuador. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus riveti) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621. : 100–1xx, discussed the taxonomic status of the populations formerly assigned to this species (now including Pristimantis lutzae, Pristimantis gloria, Pristimantis multicolor, Pristimantis chomskyi, and an unnamed species). 

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