Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes glandulosus Boulenger, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 47. Holotype: IRSNB 1010 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 10. Type locality: "Andes de l'Équateur".

Eleutherodactylus glandulosus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 351.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) glandulosus — 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 glandulosus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) glandulosus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

Ecuador Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Páramo and cloud forest at elevations of 2105-2890 m in the upper Río Papallacta Valley on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Napo Province, Ecuador.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. See account by Lynch, 1969, J. Herpetol., 3: 135-143, who placed this species in a restricted Eleutherodactylus curtipes group. See brief account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 32. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus glandulosus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 341.

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