Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus riveti — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 404; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29.

Hylodes riveti Despax, 1911, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, 17: 92. Holotype: MNHNP 1902.357, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29. Type locality: "Equateur, . . . Mirador", 3800 m, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Both Andean cordilleras at elevations of 2620-3420 m surrounding the Cuenca basin in southern Ecuador.

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. Synonymized with Eleutherodactylus curtipes by Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 266, but resurrected by Lynch, 1979, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 66: 37, who provided an account, considered it most closely related to Eleutherodactylus balionotus, and noted previous misidentifications in the literature. Almendáriz and Orcés, 2004, Politécnica, Quito, 25: 128, provided distributional data for Ecuador. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus riveti) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621.

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