Published July 14, 2019 | Version v1
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Pristimantis pleurostriatus

  • 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 pleurostriatus (Rivero 1984) *

Holotype: UPR-M 4971.

Type locality: San Eusebio, La Carbonera, 2,316 m, Mérida State, Venezuela.

Distribution: Region 1. Endemic to Venezuelan Cordillera de Mérida. Apparently restricted to surroundings of type locality.

Remarks: Barrio-Amorós et al. (2013) redescribed this previously poorly-known species using fresh material and placed it into a phylogenetic context. In Pristimantis unistrigatus species group according to original publication (Rivero 1984), but not assigned to any species group by Hedges et al. (2008) or Padial et al. (2014).

Selected references: Rivero (1982c, 1983); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2013).

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 pages 121-122, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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References

  • Rivero JA. 1984. Una nueva especie de Colostethus (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae) de la Cordillera de la Costa, con anotaciones sobre otros Colostethus de Venezuela. Brenesia 22: 51 - 56.
  • Barrio-Amoros CL, Heinicke M, Hedges SB. 2013. A new tuberculated Pristimantis (Anura, Terrarana, Strabomantidae) from the Venezuelan Andes, redescription of Pristimantis pleurostriatus and variation within Pristimantis vanadisae. Zootaxa 3647: 43 - 62.
  • Hedges SB, Duellman WE, Heinicke MP. 2008. New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737: 1 - 182.
  • Rivero JA. 1982 c. Los Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae) de los Andes Venezolanos II. Especies subparameras. Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 42: 57 - 132.
  • Rivero JA. 1983. Sobre las relaciones y el origen de los Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae) andinos de Venezuela. Pp. 199 - 204 In: Informe Final IX CLAZ Peru, VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Zoologia, Arequipa, Peru. 1531 pp.