Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes fenestratus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 249. Syntypes: NHMW 19940.1 (Río Mamoré) and 19940.2 (Borba), 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: "Rio Mamoré, [Estado de Rondônia, Brazil,] und Borba [Estado do Amazonas]", Brazil.

Lithodytes cinereus Cope, 1885, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 103. Types: Not stated or known to exist (not ASNP 14735, according to Dunn, 1949, Am. Mus. Novit., 1419: 350). Type locality: "Canutama, a distance of six hundred miles, and at Marrahan, a distance of seven hundred miles above its mouth on the Purus river", western Brazil. Synonymy, discussion of types and type locality by Lynch, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 254-256.

Eleutherodactylus fenestratus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) fenestratus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) fenestratus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.

English Names

Rio Mamore Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Amazon Basin of eastern Peru, northeastern Bolivia, southeastern Ecuador, southeastern Colombia, and Brazil, 100-1800 m elevation.

Comment

Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 6, discussed this species and removed it from the synonymy of Eleuthrodactylus griseus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. See comment under Eleutherodactylus bisignatus. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 117-118, provided a brief account. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. Padial and De la Riva, 2009, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 155: 97-122, provided a range map. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 178-179, for brief account.

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