Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus necerus Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 32. Holotype: USNM 195798, by original designation. Type locality: "Mindo, Pichincha Prov., Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) necerus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor necerus — Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551. by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 360.

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

Strabomantis necerus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132.

English Names

Mindo Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Humid lower montane forest at elevations of 600-1540 m on the lower Pacific slopes of the Andes in Ecuador from provincia Cotopaxi northward to Provincia Carchi; likely to occur in adjacent Colombia.

Comment

See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 116-117, who place this species in the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) bufoniformis group. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus bufoniformis group. In the Strabomantis bufoniformis species series, of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Craugastor necerus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 306.

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