Pristimantis abakapa Rojas-Runjaic, Salerno, Señaris, and Pauly, 2013

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

Pristimantis abakapa Rojas-Runjaic, Salerno, Señaris, and Pauly, 2013, Zootaxa, 3686: 337. Holotype: MHNLS 20544, by original designation. Type locality: "Abakapá-tepui, Macizo de Chimantá, Parque Nacional Canaima, Gran Sabana municipality, Bolívar state, Venezuela (5° 11′ 31.2″ N, 62° 18′ 56.6″ W; elevation 2245 m)". Zoobank publication registration: F503F48B-57B7-498F-91B4-C975DAA6956C

English Names

Abakapa Rain Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality on the the summit of Abakapá-tepui, (2245 m), one of the eleven mountains that makes up the Chimantá massif, so the range is expected to include the entire massif, Bolívar state, Venezuela

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the nonmonophyletic Pristimantis unistrigatus group according to the original publication. Not assigned to species group by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 88–89, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. Jablonski, Grul'a, Barrio-Amorós, and Kok, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 473–478, compared the mt 16s sequence of this species with other species in the eastern tepuis of Venezuela and Guyana. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 111, for comments on range and literature with special reference to Venezuela.  

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