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Pristimantis simoterus (Lynch, 1980)
Eleutherodactylus simoterus Lynch, 1980, Caldasia, 13: 177. Holotype: ICN 759, by original designation. Type locality: "Páramo de Letras, páramo-subpáramo, vereda Albania, Municipio de Herveo, Departamento del Tolima, 3200 m alt."
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) simoterus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232.
Pristimantis simoterus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) simoterus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
English Names
Albania Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).
Distribution
Northern and northeastern flanks of Cordillera Central at elevation of 2700–4350 m, departaments of Caldas, Risaralda, and Tolima, Colombia.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus orcesi assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. See geographic comment by Lynch, Ruiz-Carranza, and Ardila-Robayo, 1996, Caldasia, 18: 330. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus orcesi group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) orcesi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125. 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 simoterus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621. Romero-Garcia, Clavijo-Garzon, and Bernal-Bautista, 20115, Zootaxa, 4007: 298–300, reported on the advertisement call.
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