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Pristimantis roseus (Boulenger, 1918)

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

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Eleutherodactylus roseus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Walker and Test, 1955, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 561: 10.

Hylodes roseus Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 2: 429. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.16.94 (formerly 1916.4.25.28), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 318. Type locality: "Andagoya, Choco, Colombia".

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

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

English Names

Andagoya Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Lowlands of western Colombia (departments of Valle del Cauca, Chocó, Risaralda, and Antioquia), 0-900 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. See account and redescription of the holotype by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 180-182. 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 roseus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621, who regarded records for Ecuador as in error.

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