Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus altae Dunn, 1942, Not. Nat., Philadelphia, 104: 1. Holotype: ANSP 23815, by original designation. Type locality: "Atlantic slope of Costa Rica, on the pass between Barba and Irazu, below the divide and above the finca of Felix Delgado, approximately 4000 feet", Cantón de El Guarco, Provincia de Cartago, 2860 m, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 93, commented on the type locality.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) altae — 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 altae — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) altae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114.

English Names

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

Distribution

Humid lowland and premontane zones of Atlantic slope northern and central Costa Rica, south to extreme northwestern Panama, 60-1245 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus cruentus group, according to Savage, 1980, Prelim. Handlist Herptofauna Costa Rica: 6, and Savage and DeWeese, 1981 "1980", Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 940, which is viewed as a subset of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch. See account by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 697. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 265-266, provided an account and placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus cruentatus group. In the Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) ridens species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus altae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 317.

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