Pristimantis acutirostris (Lynch, 1984)

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

Eleutherodactylus acutirostris Lynch, 1984, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol., 60: 2. Holotype: ICN 12374, by original designation. Type locality: "'Cuchilla del Fara', near headwaters of Río Luisito, vereda Virolín, municipio Charalá, Depto. Santander, Colombia, 1780 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) acutirostrisLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219.

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

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

English Names

Sharpsnout Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in the Departments of Santander and Boyacá (northern), Colombia, 1630–2400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, not assigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. Ramírez-Pinilla, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 219–222, provided an account and map. In the subgenus Pristimantis, but unnassigned to species group by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 118. Not assignable to any current species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus acutirostris) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 315. Meza-Joya, Chinchilla-Lemus, Ramos, Armesto, and Acevedo-Rincón, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 61–69, provided new localities and discussed identification and the range (including a dot map). 

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