Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus leptolophus Lynch, 1980, Caldasia, 13: 180. Holotype: KU 169041, by original designation. Type locality: "26 km E Puracé, Departamento del Cauca, Colombia, 3180 m alt."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) leptolophus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

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

English Names

Volcano Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Distribution

Clustered around the series of volcanoes that lie along the frontier of the departments of Cauca and Huila (Coconuco, Huila, Pan de Azúcar, Puracé, and Sotará), Colombia.

Comment

In the casually defined Eleutherodactylus leptolophus group according to Lynch, 1991, J. Herpetol., 25: 344-352. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus leptolophus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) leptolophus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

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