Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus repens Lynch, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 234. Holotype: ICN 12323, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcán Galeras (between km 9-12 on the road to the television tower), Municipio Pasto, Depto. Nariño, Colombia, 3220-3300 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) repens — 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 repens — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) repens — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) repens — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

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

Distribution

Municipio Pasto and Municipio La Cruz, Departamento Nariño, Colombia, 3150-3720 m elevation, in paramo and high Andean forest.

Comment

In the monophyletic Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. Lynch, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 243-246, provided an account and map. Rojas-R. and Gutiérrez-C., 2006, Check List, 2(2): 32, provided a record for the municipality of La Cruz, Nariño, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) myersi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Rojas-R. and Gutiérrez-C., 2008, Herpetozoa, 21: 85-86, discussed the ecological distribution of the species. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus repens) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 373.

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