Pristimantis altamazonicus (Barbour and Dunn, 1921)
Eleutherodactylus altamazonicus Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 161. Holotype: MCZ 2028, by original designation. Type locality: "Upper Amazon and probably collected by the Thayer Expedition at Nauta", Departamento Loreto, Peru.
Eleutherodactylus brevicrus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 40. Holotype: NHMG 120, according to Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 138. Type locality: "Watershed, Rio Pastaza", eastern Ecuador. Synonymy by Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 14.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) altamazonicus — 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 altamazonicus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) altamazonicus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
Amazon Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).
Distribution
Amazonian Colombia (Putumayo), eastern Peru, Ecuador, and adjacent Bolivia and Brazil.
Comment
Distribution discussed by Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 1-24. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 169, provided records for Bolivia. 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: 138-139, for brief account.
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