Pristimantis anolirex (Lynch, 1983)

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

Eleutherodactylus anolirex Lynch, 1983, in Rhodin and Miyata (eds.), Adv. Herpetol. Evol. Biol.: 52. Holotype: KU 168626, by original designation. Type locality: "18.5 km (by road) S Chitagá, Departamento de Norte de Santander, Colombia, 2850 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) anolirexLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Northern Cordillera Oriental in the Departments of Norte de Santander and Santander, Colombia, 1900–3550 m elevation; also in adjacent Táchira, Venezuela, in the Macizo de Tamá.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 51, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus anolirex) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 111–112, for comments on range and literature with special reference to Venezuela.

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