Tachiramantis tayrona (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Tachiramantis > Species: Tachiramantis tayrona

Eleutherodactylus tayrona Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 711: 37. Holotype: ICN 3060, by original designation. Type locality: "Serranía Cebolleta, approximately 8 hours by foot E San Pedro de la Sierra," Municipio de Ciénega, Departamento Magdalena, Colombia, 2450 m.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) tayronaLynch, 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 tayronaHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

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

Tachiramantis tayrona — Arroyo, Targino, Rueda-Solano, Daza-R., and Grant, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2123865): 7. 

English Names

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

Distribution

Northwestern slopes (1300–2700 m) of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. 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 statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus tayrona) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 622. See account, photograph, and dot map by Jiménez-Bolaño, Montes-Correa, Ospino-Cerpa, Saboyá-Acosta, and Renjifo, 2017, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 3(2): 38–42. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 31, suggested that this species may belong in Tachiramantis.  Arroyo, Targino, Rueda-Solano, Daza-R., and Grant, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2123865): 1–25, transferred the species to Tachiramantis, and discussed the systematics, range, morphology, and habitat, as well as noting that molecular evidence suggested that the name covers more than one species.  

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