Eleutherodactylus ptochus Lynch, 1998, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 22: 138. Holotype: ICN 39780, by original designation. Type locality: "COLOMBIA, Departamento de Valle del Cauca, Municipio El Cairo, vereda Las Amarillas, El Boquerón (límite con Depto. Choco), 2100-2200 m."
Pristimantis ptochus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) ptochus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.
None noted.
Region of the type locality in western Colombia (Valle del Cauca and adjacent Risaralda), 2160-2250 m elevation.
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group by implication of the original publication. See also Lynch and Ardila-Robayo, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 615-624. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.
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