Published July 14, 2019 | Version v1
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Pristimantis pedimontanus

  • 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
  • 2. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
  • 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA

Description

Pristimantis pedimontanus (La Marca 2004) *

Holotype: ULABG 3221.

Type locality: Parque Nacional Chorro del Indio, 16. 5 km in road San Cristóbal-Macanilla, approx. 8 km SE of San Cristóbal, San Cristóbal municipality, Táchira State, Venezuela.

Distribution: Region 1. Eastern slopes of Cordillera de Mérida, Andes of Venezuela.

Remarks: Assigned to Pristimantis conspicillatus species group in original publication (La Marca 2004) and maintained in this group by Hedges et al. (2008). More recently, removed from P. conspicillatus species group and left unassigned to any species group by Padial et al. (2014).

Selected references: La Marca (2004).

Notes

Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, pp. 1-198 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) (e 180) 13 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ULABG
Material sample ID
ULABG 3221
Scientific name authorship
La Marca
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Craugastoridae
Genus
Pristimantis
Species
pedimontanus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pristimantis pedimontanus (Marca, 2004) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • La Marca E. 2004. Descripcion de dos nuevos anfibios del piedemonte andino de Venezuela. Herpetotropicos 1: 1 - 9.
  • Hedges SB, Duellman WE, Heinicke MP. 2008. New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737: 1 - 182.
  • Padial JM, Grant T, Frost D. 2014. Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura; Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria. Zootaxa 3825: 1 - 132.