Pristimantis paululus (Lynch, 1974)

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

Eleutherodactylus paululus Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 6. Holotype: KU 126209, by original designation. Type locality: "Lago Agrio, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 330 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) paululusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.

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

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

English Names

Amazon Slope Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Base of the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in northern and central Ecuador, 300–570 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. 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: 128. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 98–99, provided a brief account. 

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