Pristimantis surdus (Boulenger, 1882)

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

Hylodes surdus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 212. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.17.25 (formerly 1860.6.16.106) and 1947.2.17.26 (formerly 1871.4.16.46), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 323. Type locality: "W. Ecuador" and "S. America".

Eleutherodactylus surdusStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 350.

Eleutherodactylus alberchi Flores, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 110. Holotype: MCZ 97483, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Silante Grande (Río Pilatón river drainage), Alóag-Santo Domingo de los Colorados road, 2300 m, Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador (0°27′S, 78°44′W)". Synonymy by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 136.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) surdusLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) surdusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 127.

English Names

Cloud Forest Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus surdus: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Rio Pilaton Dwarf Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus alberchi [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Upper slopes of the Cordillera Occidental at elevations of 1550–3190 m in the provinces of Imbabura and Pichincha, Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, Eleutherodactylus surdus assembly, nearest Eleutherodactylus barycuus, according to Lynch, 1980, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 336–337, who redescribed the species. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 136–137, who placed it in the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus surdus group. In the nonmonophyletic Pristimantis (Pristimantis) surdus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126–127. In the reformulated Pristimantis devillei species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus supernatis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 383.

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