Pristimantis diadematus (Jiménez de la Espada, 1875)

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

Hylodes diadematus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: pl. 3, fig. 3. Holotype: MNCN specimen figured in plate 3, fig 3 of the original paper. Type locality: Not stated.

Eleutherodactylus diadematusStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 69; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 52.

Eleutherodactylus bufonius Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 35. Holotype: NHRM 1917, according to XXX. Type locality: "Rio Pastaza, Watershed", eastern Ecuador. Synonymy by Lynch and Schwartz, 1971, J. Herpetol., 5: 103-114.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) diadematusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

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

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

English Names

Diadem Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador, Peru (see comment), and adjacent Acre (and possibly into Amazonas, see comment), Brazil; presumably in Amazonian Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Ecuador, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 91–91, provided a brief account. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 56–57, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Eleutherodactylus diadematus. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 175–176, for brief account. 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. See brief account for Pristimantis cf. diadematus, likely unnamed species, for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 90–91. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Moraes, Rainha, Werneck, Oliveira, Gascon, and Carvalho, 2022, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 62(e202262054): 23–24, discussed specimens from the Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá, Amazonas, Brazil, controversially to either Pristimantis cf. diadematus and Pristimantis eurydactylus

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