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Pristimantis luscombei (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis

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Eleutherodactylus luscombei Duellman and Mendelson, 1995, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 55: 354. Holotype: URP (W.E. Duellman 59957), by original designation. Type locality: "study zone at 1.5 km N Teniente Lopez, (02° 35′ 39.6″ S, 76° 06′ 55.0″ W, 312 m), Provincia Loreto, Departamento Loreto, Peru".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) luscombei — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the drainages of the Río Corrientes and Río Tigre in extreme northern Loreto, Peru, and adjacent provinces of Francisco de Orellana and Pastaza, in Amazonian Ecuador.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 190, for brief account. Ortega-Andrade and Valencia, 2010, Herpetol. Notes, 3: 251-256, provided the first records for Ecuador.

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