Pristimantis eugeniae (Lynch and Duellman, 1997)

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

Eleutherodactylus eugeniae Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 93. Holotype: KU 165899, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Zapadores, 5 km ESE Chiriboga, 2010 m (00° 15′ S, 78° 43′ W), Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) eugeniaeLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

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

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

English Names

Eugenia's Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 68). 

Distribution

Area of cloud forest at elevations of 1783 to 2088 m in the upper valley of the Río Pilatón in the provinces of Pichincha and Cotopaxi, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Subgenus Eleutherodactylus, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. Guayasamin, Bonaccorso, Menéndez-Guerrero, and Bustamante, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 17–23, provided vocalization, a distribution map and additional distributional data beyond 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 photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus eugeniae) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 337. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 68–69, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador. See Carrión-Olmedo and Ron, 2021, Evol. Syst., 5: 151–175, for phylogenetic placement. 

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