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Pristimantis gladiator (Lynch, 1976)
Eleutherodactylus gladiator Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 316. Holotype: KU 143516, by original designation. Type locality: "3.3 km ESE Cuyuja, Napo Province, Ecuador, elevation 2350 m."
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) gladiator — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.
Pristimantis gladiator — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) gladiator — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125.
English Names
Papallacta Valley Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).
Distribution
Papallacta Valley near Cuyuja, Napo Province, as well as Monte Olivio, Imbabure Province, Ecuador, in cloud forest at intermediate elevations (2270–2910 m) on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes; adjacent Putumayo Province, Colombia.
Comment
Most closely related to Eleutherodactylus leoni and Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus according to Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 317. In the monophyletic Eleutherodactylus pyrrhomerus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to Lynch, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 237. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) myersi series, Eleutherodactylus myersi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 235-236, provided records for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis myersi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 125, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus gladiator) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 340. See note by Guayasamin and Funk, 2009, Zootaxa, 2220: 41-66, on this species at the Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador, and provided the elevational range.
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