Pristimantis lanthanites (Lynch, 1975)

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

Eleutherodactylus lanthanites Lynch, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 272: 10. Holotype: KU 146144, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 340 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) lanthanitesLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.

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

Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) lanthanitesHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 116.

English Names

Metallic Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Distribution

Lowland Amazonian rainforest and lower humid montane forest in Ecuador, Peru, adjacent Colombia and Amazonas, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See brief accounts by Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 93–94, and Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 39-40. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 57–58, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Eleutherodactylus lanthanites. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1-78. In the Pristimantis (Hypodictyon) rubicundus group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 116. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 129-130, for brief account. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156, provided a record from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 188–189, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. 

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