Pristimantis croceoinguinis (Lynch, 1968)

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

Eleutherodactylus croceoinguinis Lynch, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 133. Holotype: KU 110789, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia, Napo, Ecuador, 340 meters".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) croceoinguinisLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Lowland Amazonian rainforests of Ecuador and adjacent Colombia but penetrating into low cloud forest at the base of the Pastaza trench; eastern Amazonian Peru and possibly into Acre, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Comment

 Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 90–91, provided a brief account and characterization of the call. Discussed by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 24. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. See Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 4, for Colombian record. 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 Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 168-169, for brief account. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 447, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.

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