Pristimantis myersi (Goin and Cochran, 1963)
Trachyphrynus myersi Goin and Cochran, 1963, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 31: 502. Holotype: CAS 85177, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, [Departamento] Nariño, 20 miles east of Pasto".
Eleutherodactylus myersi — Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289-300.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi — 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 myersi — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) myersi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
English Names
Myers' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Distribution
Páramos on the Nudo de Pasto and the southern end of the Cordillera Central in Colombia (2900-3275 m).
Comment
In the monophyletic Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to Lynch, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 237. See account by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 25-26. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) myersi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
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