Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus brevifrons Lynch, 1981, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 697: 8. Holotype: UMMZ 166572, by original designation. Type locality: "15 km WNW Cali (=Cerro San Antonio (also known as TV tower mountain)), Departamento Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 2050 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) brevifrons — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) brevifrons — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

Cali Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

High cloud forests (2060-2610 m) on the western slopes of the Western Andes (Cordillera Occidental) and on the western slope of the Central Andes (Cordillera Central) in west-central Colombia, 1500-2600 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage, according to Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 711: 1-59. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. Lynch, 1998, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 22: 118, revised the species. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

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