Pristimantis yustizi (Barrio-Amorós and Chacón-Ortiz, 2004)

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

Eleutherodactylus yustizi Barrio-Amorós and Chacón-Ortiz, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 5. Holotype: CVULA V-2150, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro Alto, Soledad, 8° 48′ N, 70° 31′ W, estado Barinas, Venezuela, 1500 m aproximadamente".

Pristimantis yustiziFrost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 5.1, by implication of results of Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-97.

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern versant of the Mérida Andes in the states of Barinas, Táchira, and Portuguesa, Venezuela, 800–1600 m elevation; likely into adjacent Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In Pristimantis (sensu Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-97) by implication, although not mentioned by those authors in their Table 2 (supplemental data). 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: 128. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 129, for comments on range and literature.

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