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Pristimantis unistrigatus (Günther, 1859)

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

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Hylodes unistrigatus Günther, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859: 416. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.17.7-9 (formerly 60.6.16.97-98, 60.6.16.105), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 326. Type locality: "western Ecuador".

Hylodes lehmanni Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 26. Syntypes: SMF 1200.1a (2 specimens); SMF 3777 (formerly 1200.1a) considered holotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39. Type locality: "Páramo del Bordoncillo, 3500 m, Verein. Staaten vom Columbia". Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32.

Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 80..

Eleutherodactylus lehmanni — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 80.

Prostherapis equatorialis Barbour, 1908, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 51: 320. Syntypes: MCZ 2261 (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Equador". Synonymy by Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401.

Syrrhophus coeruleus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 24. Syntypes: NHRM 1913 (5 specimens), according to XXX. Type locality: "Eastern Ecuador". Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32.

Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus unistrigatus Cochran, 1948, Am. Mus. Novit., 1375: 1. by implication.

Syrrhopus caeruleus — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 232.

Eleutherodactylus coeruleus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196. by implication.

Eleutherodactylus coeruleus — Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289-300.

Phyllobates equatorialis — Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 5.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) unistrigatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234.

Pristimantis unistrigatus — 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) unistrigatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

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

Distribution

Inter-Andean valleys from southern Colombia to central Ecuador.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 59-60, and Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32-37. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. Almendáriz and Orcés, 2004, Politécnica, Quito, 25: 130-131, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 237, provided records for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

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