Pristimantis petersi (Lynch and Duellman, 1980)
Eleutherodactylus petersi Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 48. Holotype: KU 143508, by original designation. Type locality: "16.5 km NNE Santa Rosa, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 1700 m". A secondary homonym of Tomodactylus petersi Duellman, 1954.
Eleutherodactylus petersorum Lynch, 1991, Copeia, 1991: 1139. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus petersi Lynch and Duellman, 1980.
Eleutherodactylus johnwrighti Lynch, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 279. Invalid replacement name for Eleutherodactylus petersi Lynch and Duellman, 1980.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) petersorum — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.
Pristimantis petersorum — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) petersorum — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.
Pristimantis petersi — Frost, 2009, Amph. Spec. World Online, vers. 5.3: . Application of Article 59.4 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999).
English Names
Peters' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).
Distribution
In cloud forests at 1410-1950 m on the eastern face of the Cordillera Central in Departments of Caqueta, Huila, and Putumayo in Colombia and the Provinces of Sucumbios, Napo, and Pastaza in Ecuador.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage, according to Heyer and Hardy, 1991, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 104: 444. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 236, provided records for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus petersorum) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 367. See note by Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41-66, on this species (i.e., Pristimantis cf. petersi) at the Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador.
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