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Pristimantis wiensi (Duellman and Wild, 1993)
Eleutherodactylus wiensi Duellman and Wild, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 157: 22. Holotype: KU 219795, by original designation. Type locality: "12.7 km (by road) ENE of Canchaque (05°24′S, 79°35′W, 1600 m), Provincia Huancabamba, Departamento Piura, Peru".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) wiensi — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234.
Pristimantis wiensi — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) wiensi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
Common Names
Wiens' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Known only from two localities at elevations of 1600 and 1735 m in humid montane forest on the western slope of the Cordillera de Huancabamba in the Department of Piura, northern Peru.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Peru
Endemic: Peru
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1-78. 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: 256-257, for brief account.
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