Pristimantis xestus (Lynch, 1995)

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

Eleutherodactylus xestus Lynch, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 515. Holotype: ICN 32337, by original designation. Type locality: "just below the peak of Cerro Tatamá, Departamento Chocó, Colombia, 4050 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) xestusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) xestusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Department of Choco, Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus curtipes group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus curtipes group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) curtipes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120–121. In the reformulated Pristimantis devillei species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126.

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