Syrrhopus pardalis Barbour, 1928, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 26. Holotype: MCZ 13057, by original designation. Type locality: "La Loma, in the cloud forest on trail from Chiriquicito to Boquete, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama".
Eleutherodactylus pardalis — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 696.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pardalis — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.
Pristimantis pardalis — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) pardalis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114.
Leopard Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Patchy distribution in the premontane belt on the Pacific slope of southwestern Costa Rica (884-1220 m elevation) and on the Atlantic slope of northwestern Panama to eastern Panama.
In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. and in the less inclusive Eleutherodactylus cruentus group of Savage, 1980, Prelim. Handlist Herptofauna Costa Rica: 6. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 269, provided an account and placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus cruentus group. In the Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) ridens species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 114. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus pardalis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 364.
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