Oreobates lehri (Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2007)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Oreobates > Species: Oreobates lehri

Eleutherodactylus lehri Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2007, Herpetologica, 63: 115. Holotype: USNM 537848, by original designation. Type locality: "Apurimac River Valley, Camisea Natural Gas Pipeline, Wayrapata Camp, 2445 m asl, (12°50′10″ S, 73°29′43″ W), Department Cusco, Peru".

Oreobates lehriPadial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 152: 759.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from two localities in the Cordillera Vilcabamba, Departamento Cusco, Peru, at 2445 and 2850 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis group according to the original publication; by implication excluded from Eleutherodactylus, but not assigned to genus by Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092-97. See account by Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 152: 759-760. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 100-101, for brief account. See comment under Oreobates gemcare. See comments by Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado C., Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2012, Am. Mus. Novit., 3752: 38-39.

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