Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes appendiculatus Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 410. Holotype: NHMW 16507, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 21, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 25. Type locality: "Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus appendiculatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 350.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) appendiculatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Cloud forests at elevations of 1460-2800 m on the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and extreme southern Colombia (Department of Nariño).

Comment

Redescribed by Lynch, 1970, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 73: 171-173. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 71-70. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus devillei group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) devillei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

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