Pristimantis crenunguis (Lynch, 1976)

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

Eleutherodactylus crenunguis Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 55: 2. Holotype: KU 120126, by original designation. Type locality: "Prov. Pichincha, Ecuador, 1460 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) crenunguisLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

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

Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) crenunguisHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 116.

English Names

Spring Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Spring Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 62). 

Distribution

Elevations of 1380 to 1747 m in the humid subtropics on the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental in Pichincha and Santo Domingo, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus rubicundus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to Lynch and Miyata, 1980, Breviora, 457: 11. This assembly subsequently rejected by Lynch, 1984, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol., 60: 10, although subsequently Lynch, Ruiz-Carranza, and Ardila-Robayo, 1994, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 170: 1-42, considered this species (as well as Eleutherodactylus rubicundus) to be in the Eleutherodactylus cerasinus group. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 83-85. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus cerasinus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus cerasinus series, Eleutherodactylus cerasinus group. In the Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) rubicundus group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 116. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus crenunguis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 330. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 62–64, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. 

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