Pristimantis celator (Lynch, 1976)

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

Eleutherodactylus celator Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 55: 22. Holotype: KU 131573, by original designation. Type locality: "La Delicia, Cordillera del Intac, Prov. Imbabura, Ecuador, 2700 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) celatorLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) celatorHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

La Delicia Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Cloud forests (1750–2800 m) on the Pacific versant of the western Andes in northern Ecuador and adjacent southern Colombia (Department of Nariño).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

Most similar to Eleutherodactylus parvillus, according to the original publication. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 76-77. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus celator) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619.

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