Pristimantis malkini (Lynch, 1980)
Eleutherodactylus malkini Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 9. Holotype: AMNH 94228, by original designation. Type locality: "Estirón, Río Ampiyacu, Depto. Loreto, Peru".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) malkini — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228.
Pristimantis malkini — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) malkini — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.
English Names
Rio Ampiyacu Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).
Distribution
Low elevation rainforests in the upper Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and northern and central Peru.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. Distribution records discussed by Lynch and Lescure, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 310-311. Cisneros-Heredia, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 74, provided a range extension in Ecuador. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 193-194, for brief account.
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