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Pristimantis quaquaversus (Lynch, 1974)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis

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Eleutherodactylus quaquaversus Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 9. Holotype: KU 123745, by original designation. Type locality: "south slope of the Cordillera del Dué above the Río Coca, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 1150 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) quaquaversus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.

Pristimantis quaquaversus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) quaquaversus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

English Names

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

Distribution

Lower Amazonian slopes (300-1830 m) of the Andes from northern Ecuador south to the Cordillera de Cutucú and Cordillera del Condor, and adjacent Peru.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. See brief account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 53-54. Peruvian record supplied by Duellman and Mendelson, 1995, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 55: 329-376. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1-78. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 222-223, for brief account.

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