Pristimantis ockendeni (Boulenger, 1912)
Eleutherodactylus ockendeni — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 411.
Hylodes ockendeni Boulenger, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 10: 187. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.16.88-90 (formerly 1907.5.7.19-21), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 307. Type locality: "La Union, Rio Huacamayo, Carabaya, [Departamento Puno,] S.E. Peru, 2000 feet", southeastern Peru.
Hylodes hylaeformis Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 48. Holotype: NHMG 493, according to See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 204. Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martin,] Perú". Synonymy by Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 12.
Syrrhophus calcaratus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 27. Holotype: NHRM 1921, according to Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 21. Type locality: "Rio Casanga [= Cosanga] near Archidona, 800 m", Ecuador. Secondary homonym of Eleutherodactylus calcaratus Boulenger, 1908. Synonymy by Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 16.
Syrrhopus calcaratus — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 339.
Eleutherodactylus melini Bokermann, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 95. Replacement name for Hylodes hylaeformis Melin, 1941, a secondary homonym of Phyllobates hylaeformis Cope, 1875).
Eleutherodactylus calcaratus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus anderssoni Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289-300. Replacement name for Syrrhophus calcaratus Andersson, 1945. Preoccupied by Hylodes calcaratus Boulenger, 1908.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) ockendeni — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229.
Pristimantis ockendeni — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) ockendeni — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.
English Names
Carabaya Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Distribution
Highly provisional (see comment); the type material belongs to one species currently known only from the type locality in Peru; the Ecuadorian records have been allocated to other species; records from Colombia likely are assignable to other species as are records from northern Bolivia. The currently unelucidated group of species is found in lowland rainforests to cloudforests of Amazonian Ecuador, Colombia, western Brazil east to Manaus, southern Peru, and northern Bolivia, 300-1200 m.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. According to Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 16, the Panama records of this species probably refer to Eleutherodactylus frater, but Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 184, considered the Panama records to apply to Eleutherodactylus taeniatus. Distribution records discussed by Lynch and Lescure, 1980, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 2: 311. See comment under Eleutherodactylus frater. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1-78. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 170, provided a record for Departmento Pando in northern Amazonian Bolivia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. Elmer and Cannatella, 2008, Zootaxa, 1784: 11-38, recognized Pristimantis achuar, Pristimantis altamnis, and Pristimantis kichwarum from within the range of nominal Pristimantis ockendeni, noted that it was unlikely that Eleutherodactylus melini is conspecific with the type material of Eleutherodactylus ockendeni (i.e., that nominal Pristimantis ockendeni in Peru is melini and not ockendeni) and noted other ongoing difficulties in the elucidation of the species masquerading under the name Pristimantis "ockendeni". See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 204-205, for brief account.
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