Pristimantis trachyblepharis (Boulenger, 1918)

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

Hylodes trachyblepharis Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 2: 429. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.17.2–4 (formerly 1912.11.1.58–60) according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 324. Type locality: "El Topo, Rio Pastaza, [Provincia Tungurahua,] E. Ecuador, 4200 ft.".

Eleutherodactylus trachyblepharis — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 349.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) trachyblepharisLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

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

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

English Names

El Topo Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Distribution

Low to moderate elevations (950–1500 m) in the eastern Andean foothills in the provinces of Tungurahua, Pastaza, Morona Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe, Napo and Sucumbíos, Ecuador; a single specimen from 3 km NE Pebas, Departamento Loreto, Peru. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See brief account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 57–58. 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 Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 247–248, for brief account. Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2013, Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 5(2): B5–B13, commented on the range in Ecuador. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156. provided a record from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes.  

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