Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pinguis Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 40. Holotype: KU 18283, by original designation. Type locality: "23 km (by road) SW Celendín, 3200 m, Provincia Celendín, Departamento Cajamarca, Peru".
Pristimantis pinguis — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) pinguis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
None noted.
Known only from the region of the type locality in the Province of Celendín and from the high western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental near Chugur and Hacienda Taulis, Departamento Cajamarca, Peru, 3000-3916 m elevation.
In the Eleutherodactylus orestes group according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) orestes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 218, for brief account.
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