Pristimantis mendax (Duellman, 1978)

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

Eleutherodactylus mendax Duellman, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 266. Holotype: KU 173234, by original designation. Type locality: "Colonia Pistipapta on the Río Umasbamba, 12 km (by road) SE of Huyro, Departamento Cuzco, Perú, elevation 1820 m (13° 03′ S; 72° 30′ W)".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) mendaxLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228.

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

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

English Names

Pistipata Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Elevations of 1700–3325 m on the Amazonian slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in central and southern Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage, according to Heyer and Hardy, 1991, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 104: 444. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. Morales and Icochea, 2000, J. Herpetol., 34: 158–160, redescribed the type, discussed the identity of the paratypes, and corrected the distribution. See comment under Eleutherodactylus olivaceus. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 58, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Lehr, Lundberg, Aguilar, and von May, 2006, Herpetol. Monogr., 20: 122, provided comments on habitat, identification, and range. 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. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 196-197, for brief account.

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