Pristimantis acatallelus (Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1983)

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

Eleutherodactylus acatallelus Lynch and Ruiz-Carranza, 1983, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 86: 100. Holotype: ICN 7814, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Sopladero, 33 m by road NNW Uribe, Depto. Cauca, Colombia, 2190 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) acatallelusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) acatellelusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

English Names

Cauca Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Cloud forests on the western flanks of the Western Andes (Departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Risaralda, and Valle del Cauda), Colombia, 2000–2600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group; most similar to Eleutherodactylus subsigillatus, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus devillei group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) devillei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. In the reformulated Pristimantis devillei species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. 

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