Pristimantis zimmermanae (Heyer and Hardy, 1991)

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

Eleutherodactylus zimmermanae Heyer and Hardy, 1991, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 104: 436. Holotype: MZUSP 64539, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil: Amazonas, Reservas INPA-WWF-SI, approximately 80 km N of Manaus, approximately 2°20′S, 59°50′W".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) zimmermanaeLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234.

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

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) zimmermanaeHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123.

English Names

Zimmerman's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Distribution

Amazonian Basin; known records from Colombia, Bolivia, French Guiana (see comment) and Amapá and Amazonas, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: French Guiana

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, consider this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, Reichle, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2004, Graellsia, 60: 172, provided a record from Departamento Pando, Bolivia. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 58-588, provided a record for the vicinity of Leticia, Colombia. In the Pristimantis lacrimosus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 123, and of  Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 366, referred specimens from the Manaus region of Brazil and of the Mitaraka Massif of French Guiana to Pristimantis aff. zimmermanae.  Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. 

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