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Pristimantis sanctaemartae (Ruthven, 1917)

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

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Eleutherodactylus sanctae-martae Ruthven, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 39: 1. Holotype: UMMZ 48605, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 14. Type locality: "San Lorenzo (5,000 ft.), Santa Marta Mountains, Colombia". Kluge, 1983, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 166: 37, refined the type locality to "Cincinnati, a place on San Lorenzo".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) sanctaemartae — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) sanctaemartae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.

English Names

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

Distribution

Forests on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 1100-2600 m elevation

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, unassigned to species group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus sanctaemartae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 621.

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