Pristimantis condor (Lynch and Duellman, 1980)

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

Eleutherodactylus condor Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 18. Holotype: KU 146992, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Piuntza, Cordillera del Condor, Provincia Morona-Santiago, Ecuador, 1830 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) condorLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

Pristimantis condorHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) condorHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.

English Names

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

Distribution

Cloud forests in the Cordillera del Condor, 1500–1750 m elevation, in (Morono-Santiago, Ecuador, and adjacent Amazonas, Peru) and the Cordillera de Cutucú, ca. 1975 m elevation, Morona-Santiago, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See also Duellman and Lynch, 1988, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 140: 125-142. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus condor) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 328. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 162-163, for brief account. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis conspicillatus clade of Fouquet, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Werneck, Hrbek, Lima, Camacho-Badani, Jaramillo-Martinez, and Chave, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20(1: 2130464): 1–16, who reported on phylogenetics and biogeography and noted this nominal species to be composed of at least three lineage-species. 

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