Pristimantis walkeri (Lynch, 1974)
Eleutherodactylus walkeri Lynch, 1974, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 87: 381. Holotype: KU 131652, by original designation. Type locality: "Las Palmas (junction of highways 28 and 30), Prov. Pichincha, Ecuador, 920 m."
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) walkeri — 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 walkeri — 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) walkeri — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
Walker's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Pacific slopes of Ecuadorian Andes (100-1270 m).
Comment
See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 148-149, who place this in the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
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