Pristimantis minutulus Duellman and Hedges, 2007

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

Pristimantis minutulus Duellman and Hedges, 2007, Phyllomedusa, 6: 127. Holotype: KU 291678, by original designation. Type locality: "0.0-1.5 km NW Cacazú, 900-1200 m, 10° 38′ S, 75° 07′ W, Departamento Pasco, Peru".

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known from the type locality, 0.9 km north and 2.1 km east of Oxapampa, Departmento Pasco, central Peru, 1970 m elevation, as well as 115 km to the northeast of this locality at Panguana, Departamento Huánuco, Peru .

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus group, most similar to Pristimantis stictogaster, according to the original publication. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Rödder and Schlüter, 2009, Salamandra, 45: 53-56, provided the second locality for this species and reported on color-pattern polymorphism. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 200-201, for brief account.

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