Eleutherodactylus fallax Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 308. Holotype: ICN 40795, by original designation. Type locality: "ANTIOQUIA, Municipio San Rafael, bosque de San Rafael, cerca Estadero El Bizcocho, aprox. 1200 m.s.n.m.", Colombia.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) fallax — Lynch, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 323.
Pristimantis fallax — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) fallax — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.
None noted.
Along forested streams on the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central, Antioquia, Tolima, and Caldas departments, Colombia, ca. 1100-1850 m elevation.
Unassigned to subgenus according to the original publication. Lynch, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 322-324, provided an account and map. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus fallax) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 337.
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