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Pristimantis acatallelus (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1983)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis

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Eleutherodactylus acatallelus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1983, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 86: 100. Holotype: ICN 7814, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Sopladero, 33 m by road NNW Uribe, Depto. Cauca, Colombia, 2190 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) acatallelus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) acatellelus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

English Names

Cauca Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Cloud forests on the western flanks of the Western Andes (Departments of Cauca and Risaralda), Colombia, 2000-2600 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group; most similar to Eleutherodactylus subsigillatus, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus devillei group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) devillei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

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