Pristimantis andinognomus Lehr and Coloma, 2008

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

Pristimantis andinognomus Lehr and Coloma, 2008, Herpetologica, 64: 355. Holotype: QCAZ16695, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Tapichalaca, on road between Yangana and Valladolid (04°28′ S, 79°08′ W; 2667 m), Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador".

English Names

Andean Dwarf Robber Frog (Székely, Eguiguren, Ordóñez-Delgado, Armijos-Ojeda, and Székely, 2020, PLoS One, 15(9: e0238306): 14). 

Distribution

Known from two localities in the Cordillera Oriental of the southern Ecuadorian Andes (Abra de Zamora and Reserva Tapichalaca, Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe), 2400–2800 m elevation. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Most closely related to Pristimantis caeruleonotus and Pristimantis colodactylus according to the original publication Not assignable to species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Székely, Eguiguren, Ordóñez-Delgado, Armijos-Ojeda, and Székely, 2020, PLoS One, 15(9: e0238306): 14–16, suggested that the nominal species is a complex of at least two species, the population at the type locality and the population in the higher parts of the Abra de Zamora. 

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