Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus veletis Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid, 1997, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 21: 139. Holotype: ICN 37206, by original designation. Type locality: "Colombia, Departamento de Caldas, Municipio de Pensilvania, Km 24 carretera Pensilvania a Arboleda, por una troche que conduce a Florencia, Caldas, sitio «Puerto Suarez», 2000-2150 m.s.n.m.".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) veletis — Lynch, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 269.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) veletis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central in the Municipality of Pensilvania, Department of Caldas, Colombia, 1800-2450 m elevation.

Comment

Unassigned to species group in the original publication. Lynch, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 269-272, provided an account and map and placed this species in the subgenus Eleutherodactylus. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus veletis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 388.

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