Pristimantis grandiceps (Lynch, 1984)

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

Eleutherodactylus grandiceps Lynch, 1984, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol., 60: 7. Holotype: ICN 12481, by original designation. Type locality: "'Bogotacito,' km 55-56, Duitama-Charalá road, municipio Gambita, Depto. Santander, Colombia, ca. 2400 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) grandicepsLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) grandicepsHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

Giant Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Western flank of the Cordillera Oriental in Boyacá and Santander, Colombia, 2200–2400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127.

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