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Pristimantis viejas (Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1999)
Eleutherodactylus viejas Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 311. Holotype: ICN 42426, by original designation. Type locality: "ANTIOQUIA, Municipio San Carlos: carretera San Carlos a vereda Patio Bonito, Hda. Las Vegas, 1180 m.s.n.m."
Pristimantis viejas — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) viejas — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Colombia in two disjunct areas, one population along the eastern base of the northern part of the Cordillera Central in the departments of Caldas, Antioquia and Córdoba, and the other found on the opposite side of the Magdalena valley on the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental in the departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca, and Santander, generally below 1500 m elevation
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Colombia
Endemic to the political unit: Colombia
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus frater group according to the original publication. See also Lynch and Ardila-Robayo, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 615–624. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. In the Pristimantis ridens species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Ovalle-Pacheco, Camacho-Rozo, and Arroyo, 2019, Check List, 15: 393–394, reported the species from Boyacá, Colombia, and commented on the range in Colombia. Romero-Martínez, Vidal-Pastrana, Lynch, and Dueñas, 2008, Caldasia, 30: 209–229, discussed the population on Cerro Murrucucú, Córdoba, Colombia. Sepúlveda‑Seguro, Marín-Castaño, Amézquita, García, and Daza-R., 2022, Organisms Divers. Evol., 22: 803–820, studied geographic variation in calls, molecular markers, and morphology, and discovered a high-elevation cryptic lineage, which they name Pristimantis campesino.
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