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Pristimantis brevicrus (Andersson, 1945)
Eleutherodactylus brevicrus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 40. Holotype: NHMG 120, according to Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 138. Type locality: "Watershed, Rio Pastaza", eastern Ecuador.
Pristimantis brevicrus — Ortega-Andrade, Rojas-Soto, Espinosa de los Monteros, Valencia, Read, and Ron, 2017, Herpetol. J., 26: 98.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Amazonian Ecuador and northern Peru, 101–1102 m elevation; likely to be found in southern Amazonian Colombia.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru
Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Pristimantis altamazonicus by Ortega-Andrade, Rojas-Soto, Espinosa de los Monteros, Valencia, Read, and Ron, 2017, Herpetol. J., 26: 87–103, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 14. Araujo de Oliveira, Penhacek, Guimarães, Nascimento, Rodrigues, and Hernández-Ruz, 2019, MtDNA, Part A, 30: 731–738, discussed the relationships of the species and provided a polygon map. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 186–187, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.
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