Pristimantis spectabilis Duellman and Chaparro, 2008

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

Pristimantis spectabilis Duellman and Chaparro, 2008, Zootaxa, 1918: 19. Holotype: MHNC 7073, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Bárbara, 3300 m, Distrito Huancabamba, Provincia Oxapampa, Departamento Pasco, Peru (10° 20′ 14.71″ S, 75° 38′ 27.73″W)".

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality at the upper limits of elfin forest (Santa Bárbara, 3300 m, Distrito Huancabamba, Provincia Oxapampa, Departamento Pasco, Peru).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the explicitly paraphyletic Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus group according to the original publication. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 373–375, for brief account. Unassigned to species group by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, due to a lack of molecular data.

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