Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus peruvianus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 91.

Hylodes peruvianus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 43. Holotype: NHMG 490, according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 311; reported as NHMB 0030.1 by Padial, Bielskis, and Castroviejo, 2000, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 11: 61. Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martín,] Perú".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) peruvianus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.

Pristimantis peruvianus — 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) peruvianus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126.

English Names

Peru Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin in western Brazil, southern Ecuador, and eastern Peru; in cloud forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes to 1910. (See comment.)

Comment

Tentatively removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus by Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 4, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 272: 3. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 47-48. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. 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: 47, noted that this species may be composite. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 60-61, redescribed the holotype and noted that none of the material previously referred to this taxon from Bolivia was conspecific with the holotype, but nevertheless (p. 69) predicted the eventual discovery of this taxon in Bolivia. Padial, Bielskis, and Castroviejo, 2000, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 11: 61, reported "Eleutherodactylus cf. peruvianus" for Bolivia and suggested that it probably represents a new species. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) peruvianus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 211-212, for brief account.

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