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Pristimantis serendipitus (Duellman and Pramuk, 1999)
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) serendipitus Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 66. Holotype: KU 181280, by original designation. Type locality: "12 km (by trail) E La Peca, 1700 m, western slope of the Cordillera Colán, Provincia Bagua, Departamento Amazonas, Peru".
Pristimantis serendipitus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pristimantis (Pristimantis) serendipitus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Andes of northern Peru on the upper western slopes of the northern Cordillera Central, and from western slopes of the Cordillera Colan, Amazonas Department, 1700–1850 m elevation; in adjacent Ecuador at Curintza, Zamora Chinchipe Province, 1850 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to the original publication. 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. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus serendipitus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 380. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 237-238, for brief account.
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