Pristimantis stenodiscus (Walker and Test, 1955)

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

Eleutherodactylus stenodiscus Walker and Test, 1955, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 561: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 109886, by original designation. Type locality: "Pico Periquito, Rancho Grande, Estado Aragua, Venezuela".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) stenodiscusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) stenodiscusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118.

English Names

Periquito Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality, Rancho Grande on Pico Periquito, Cordillera de la Costa, in the state of Aragua, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 66-68. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118, or by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 125, for comments on range,  literature, and systematics. 

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