Pristimantis boulengeri (Lynch, 1981)

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

Eleutherodactylus boulengeri Lynch, 1981, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 697: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 166565, by original designation. Type locality: "3 km (airline) SW Cerro Munchique, Departamento de Cauca, Colombia, 2520 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) boulengeriLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) boulengeriHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

Boulenger's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Central and southern portions of the central Andes of Colombia (2540–2920 m) in high cloud forests; southern part of the western Andes of Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage, according to Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 711: 1-59. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Placed in the new Pristimantis boulengeri species group by González-Durán, Targino, Rada, and Grant, 2017, Zootaxa, 4243: 42–74. Ríos-Soto and Ospina-L., 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 719–723, reported on the advertisement call from a population in the Cordillera Central (Tolima), Colombia, and provided a range map. Rojas-Morales and Marín-Martínez, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 11: 13261–13277, discussed habitat preference and natural history in Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados, Caldas, Colombia. Placed in the Pristimantis boulengeri group and compared with others in this group by Patiño-Ocampo, Duarte-Marín, and Rivera-Correa, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 60–90.  

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