Pristimantis pseudoacuminatus (Shreve, 1935)

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

Eleutherodactylus pseudoacuminatus Shreve, 1935, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 218. Holotype: MCZ 19948, by original designation. Type locality: "Sarayacu, [Pastaza Province,] Ecuador".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pseudoacuminatusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.

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

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

English Names

Sarayacu Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador, Peru, and adjacent Colombia (330–570 m).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 15, provided additional distributional records. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. In the Pristimantis lacimosus species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 99–100, provided a brief account and characterization of the call. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 221–222, for brief account and note of the first record from Loreto, Peru.

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