Pristimantis martiae (Lynch, 1974)

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

Eleutherodactylus martiae Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 2. Holotype: KU 152389, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Cecilia, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 340 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martiaeLynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228.

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

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of the Andes of northern Ecuador (300–1300 m) and adjacent Colombia, south to southeastern Peru and in adjacent Brazil; presumably in adjacent northern Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Bolivia

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 94–95, provided a brief account and characterization of the call. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 59, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Eleutherodactylus martiae. Additional records reported by Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 11. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 194-195, for brief account. 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. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 449, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.

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