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Pristimantis toftae (Duellman, 1978)

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

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Eleutherodactylus toftae Duellman, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 267. Holotype: KU 171863, by original designation. Type locality: "Finca Panguana, Río Llullapichis, 4-5 km upstream from Río Pachitea, Departamento Huánuco, Perú, 08° 36′ S, 74° 57′ W, elevation 200 m".

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) toftae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126.

English Names

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

Distribution

Forests of the Amazonian lowlands to lower Andean foothills of central Peru to Cochabamba, Bolivia and extreme western Brazil.

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: 233. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 170-171, provided recordsfor Departamentos La Paz and Pando, Bolivia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) peruvianus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 246-247, for brief account and inclusion of Brazil within the range.

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