American Museum of Natural History

Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

  • ASW home
  • herpetology site

Pristimantis waoranii (McCracken, Forstner, and Dixon, 2007)

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

[link to this account]

Eleutherodactylus waoranii McCracken, Forstner, and Dixon, 2007, Phyllomedusa, 6: 25. Holotype: TCWC 90728, by original designation. Type locality: "near the border of Yasuni National Park along the Tiputini River, Provincia de Orellana, Ecuador; approximately 2.5 km west-northwest of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS)—Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 0° 38′ 18.49″ S, 76° 08′ 56.69″ W, 217 m a.s.l."

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) waoranii — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Yasuni National Park, Provincia de Orellana, Ecuador, 217 m elevation).

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, in the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assembly, and similar to Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus, and suggested the likely placement of this species in Pristimantis, according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

External Links

Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.

  • For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
  • For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
  • To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
  • For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
  • For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
  • For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
  • for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
  • How to cite
  • How to use
  • Higher taxonomy and progress
  • Structure of records
  • History of the project
  • Contributors, 1985 edition
  • Contributors, online edition
  • Versions
  • Museum abbreviations
  • Useful links
  • Copyright and terms of use

Copyright © 1998-2013, Darrel Frost and The American Museum of Natural History. All Rights Reserved.

Send inquiries to Darrel Frost <frost at amnh org>.