Pristimantis robayoi Yánez-Muñoz, Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, Lagla-Chimba, Paucar-Veintimilla, Urgilés-Merchán, and Carrión-Olmedo, 2025

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

Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) robayoi Yánez-Muñoz, Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, Lagla-Chimba, Paucar-Veintimilla, Urgilés-Merchán, and Carrión-Olmedo, 2025, PeerJ, 13 (e18680): 32. Holotype: DHMECN 17894, by original designation. Type locality: "S the Dracula Reserve, Chical, Tulcán, Carchi province, Ecuador, (0.86771, -78.19961; 2070 m),". Zoobank Publication registration: 0E31ADC7- D760-427D-A7F6-5E6ADB7A21B5

Common Names

Cutín de Robayo (original publication). 

Robayo's Rainfrog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from the western Cordillera of the Andes from San Jacinto de Chinambi, Chical, and Maldonado in the province of Carchi, between 1791 and 2,193 m elevation in Ecuador, and the Reserva La Planada Colombia, in the Mira River Basin

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Pristimantis myersi species group and Pristimantis (Trachyphrynus) celator clade according to the original publication, where morphological and molecular markers were detailed and a dot map provided. 

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