Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus taeniatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 103.

Hylodes taeniatus Boulenger, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 10: 188. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.16.99 (formerly 1909.10.30.41) according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 323. Type locality: "Noananoa [= Noanama], Rio San Juan, Choco, S.W. Colombia".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) taeniatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Central Panama to northwestern Ecuador to 150 m elevation.

Comment

See account and redescription provided by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 175-189. See comments under Eleutherodactylus calcarulatus and Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 138, note that Ecuadorian records of this species are based on specimens of Eleutherodactylus ockendeni and mistaken locality data. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See also Lynch and Ardila-Robayo, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 615-624. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus cruentus group. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

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