Pristimantis bipunctatus (Duellman and Hedges, 2005)

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

Eleutherodactylus bipunctatus Duellman and Hedges, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 527. Holotype: KU 291638, by original designation. Type locality: "Peru, Departamento de Pasco, Provincia de Oxapampa, 0.7 km south and 4.5 km east (airline) of Oxapampa, approximately 10° 34′ S, 75° 24′ W, 2120 m elevation".

Pristimantis bipunctatusHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) bipunctatusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Widely distributed in lowland and cloud forests (230–2320 m elevation) in the central Peruvian departments of Pasco, Junín, and Ucayali.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus group according to the original publication. Lehr, Lundberg, Aguilar, and von May, 2006, Herpetol. Monogr., 20: 121–122, comments in identification, habitat, and range. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 151–152, for brief account. In the Pristimantis conspicillatus group, Pristimantis conspicillatus clade of Fouquet, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Werneck, Hrbek, Lima, Camacho-Badani, Jaramillo-Martinez, and Chave, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20(1: 2130464): 1–16, who reported on phylogenetics and biogeography, and noted that this nominal taxon is composed of at least two lineage-species.

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