Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus ornatissimus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29.

Hylodes ornatissimus Despax, 1911, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 17: 91. Holotype: MNHNP 1906.264, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29. Type locality: "Equateur" (= Ecuador).

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) ornatissimus — 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 ornatissimus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

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

English Names

Ornate Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Elevations of 400-1800 m on the western flank of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador in cloud forest.

Comment

Redescribed by Lynch, 1970, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 73: 173-177. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 120-121, who considered it in the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus ornatissimus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 363.

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