Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus acuminatus Shreve, 1935, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 217. Holotype: MCZ 19951, by original designation. Type locality: "Canelos, [Pastaza Province,] Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) acuminatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) acuminatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

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

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador, northern Peru, and adjacent Colombia and Brazil.

Comment

Recent records reviewed by Lynch and Lescure, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 306-307, and Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 1-24. Not addressed by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 1-86. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. 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. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 135-136 (and page 370 for addenda), for brief account and inclusion of Brazil within the range.

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