Pristimantis tubernasus (Rivero, 1984)
Eleutherodactylus tubernasus Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 64. Holotype: UPRM 4349, by original designation. Type locality: "Boca de Monte, Camino de Pregonero, 2.393 m., Edo. Mérida, Venezuela".
Eleutherodactylus pulidoi Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 68. Holotype: UPRM 6085, by original designation. Type locality: "Matamula, Municipio Delicias, 1.120 m., Edo. Táchira, Venezuela". Synonymy by Lynch, 2003, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 27: 453.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) tubernasus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pulidoi — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.
Pristimantis tubernasus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) tubernasus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
Pregonero Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Matamula Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus pulidoi [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).
Distribution
Known from the type locality in the state of Mérida, as well as La Soledad, Altamira in the state of Barinas, and Matamula in the state of Táchira, Venezuela, and in adjacent Colombia.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus tubernasus subgroup of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus tubernasus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 405, for Colombian distribution. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 55, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
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