Yunganastes Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, Domic, and De la Riva, 2007
Yunganastes Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, Domic, and De la Riva, 2007, Herpetol. Monogr., 21: 217. Type species: Eleutherodactylus pluvicanorus De la Riva and Lynch, 1997. Named as a subgenus of Eleutherodactylus in a paper submitted prior to the recognition of Pristimantis.
Yunganastes — Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 52: 914. Recognition as a genus.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern Peru to central Bolivia.
Comment
Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 52: 911-915, provided molecular evidence that this taxon does not reside within Pristimantis as suggested by Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-10094, and revalidated the taxon. Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, Domic, and De la Riva, 2007, Herpetol. Monogr., 21: 213-240, revised the Eleutherodactylus fraudator group (now in Pristimantis) and recognized this monophyletic group as Yunganastes. Canedo and Haddad, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 610-620, provided a molecular cladogram suggesting that Yunganastes is the sister taxon of Pristimantis.
Contained taxa
- Yunganastes ashkapara (Köhler, 2000)
- Yunganastes bisignatus (Werner, 1899)
- Yunganastes fraudator (Lynch and McDiarmid, 1987)
- Yunganastes mercedesae (Lynch and McDiarmid, 1987)
- Yunganastes pluvicanorus (De la Riva and Lynch, 1997)
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