Pristimantis apiculatus (Lynch and Burrowes, 1990)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis apiculatus

Eleutherodactylus apiculatus Lynch and Burrowes, 1990, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 136: 8. Holotype: IND-AN 1506, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva La Planada, 7 km S Chucunez, Mcpio. Ricuarte, Depto. Nariño, Colombia, 1780 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) apiculatusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) apiculatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

La Planada Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in southern Colombia (Department of Nariño), and in cloud forest at 1750 and 2120 m in Provincia Pichincha, northwestern Ecuador

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

Most similar to Eleutherodactylus boulengeri and Eleutherodactylus calcarulatus according to the original publication; in the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group by implication. Heyer and Hardy, 1991, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 104: 444, disputed the taxonomic assignment to the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assembly. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 70-71. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126.

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