Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus thymelensis Lynch, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 144. Holotype: KU 117719, by original designation. Type locality: "Páramos del Angel, about 23 km SW Tulcan, Carchi Province, Ecuador, 3700 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) thymelensis — 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 thymelensis — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

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

English Names

Thymelen Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Distribution

Páramos in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador, 3310-4150 m elev.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus orcesi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See brief account by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 30-31. Almendáriz and Orcés, 2004, Politécnica, Quito, 25: 129-130, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 237, provided records for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) orcesi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.

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