Pristimantis yuruaniensis Rödder and Jungfer, 2008

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

Pristimantis yuruaniensis Rödder and Jungfer, 2008, Zootaxa, 1814: 59. Holotype: ZFMK87278, by original designation. Type locality: "Yuruaní-tepui, Estado Bolívar, Municipio Gran Sabana, Venezuela (Fig. 3), approximately 5° 19′ 31″N, 60° 50′ 40″ W, 2300 m a.s.l.".

Common Names

Yuruaní Rainfrog (original publication).

Distribution

Known only from Yuruaní-tepui, Estado Bolívar, Municipio Gran Sabana, Venezuela, 2300 to 2550 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

Unnassigned to species group according to the original publication where morphology and advertisement call were detailed. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. Kok, Means, and Bossuyt, 2011, Zootaxa, 2934: 1–19, mapped the type locality. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 104–105, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. Jablonski, Grul'a, Barrio-Amorós, and Kok, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 473–478, compared the mt 16s sequence of this species with other species in the eastern tepuis of Venezuela and Guyana. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 129, for comments on range and literature. Included in the Pristimantis marmoratus clade of the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes) but noted that the distinctiveness of this taxon from Pristimantis aureoventris requires confirmation. 

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