Pristimantis academicus Lehr, Moravec, and Gagliardi-Urrutia, 2010

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

Pristimantis academicus Lehr, Moravec, and Gagliardi-Urrutia, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 198. Holotype: MUSM 27634, by original designation. Type locality: " the vicinity of Puerto Almendras (03° 49′ S, 073° 22′ W, ca. 120 m a.s.l.), ca. 17 km straight southwest of Iquitos, Provin­cia Maynas, Region Loreto, Peru".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Surroundings of Puerto Al­mendras, which lies on the right bank of Río Nanay, ca. 17 km straight southwest of Iquitos, and from the area of the left bank of the Peruvian Río Buncuya (tributary of Río Ucay­ali), Región Loreto, Peru; reported from the Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil..

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Peru

Comment

Tentatively assigned to the Pristimantis unistrigatus group according to the original publication. Not assigned to species group by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil.

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