Pristimantis

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Pristimantis
P. elegans, Colombia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Strabomantidae
Subfamily:
Pristimantinae
Genus: Pristimantis
Jiménez de la Espada, 1870[1]
Diversity
About 596 species, see list

Pristimantis is a very large

endemic to the Northwestern Andean montane forests ecoregion in north-western South America.[3]

Etymology

From the greek πριστις, serrated and μαντις, arboreal frog.[4]

Taxonomy

Placement of this genus has varied greatly. Pristimantis was long included in the massive genus Eleutherodactylus, and considered part of the family Leptodactylidae. Currently, the genus is placed placing in the family Strabomantidae, subfamily Strabomantinae,[2][5][1]

Species

Main article: List of Pristimantis species
Pristimantis orcesi, Pristimantis erythros, Pristimantis pycnodermis and Pristimantis loujosti

As of October 2022, there are 592 species, but new ones continue to be described on a regular basis (e.g.,[6][7][8][9][10]):[1]

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.5531/db.vz.0001
    . Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Strabomantidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ^ C. Michael Hogan & World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Northwestern Andean montane forests. ed. P.Saundry. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
  4. ^ Jiménez de la Espada, M. (1870). "Fauna neotropicalis species quaedam nondum cognitae". Jornal de Sciências, Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes. Lisboa (3): 57–65.
  5. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.8
    .
  6. ^ Reyes-Puig, Carolina; Reyes-Puig, Juan Pablo; Velarde-Garcéz, Daniel A.; Dávalos, Nicolás; et al. (2019). "A new species of terrestrial frog Pristimantis (Strabomantidae) from the upper basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador". ZooKeys (832): 113–133.
    PMID 30930648
    .
  7. PMID 32911497
    .
  8. ^ Edgar Lehr, Shenyu Lyu and Alessandro Catenazzi. 2021. A New, Critically Endangered Species of Pristimantis (Amphibia: Anura: Strabomantidae) from A Mining Area in the Cordillera Occidental of northern Peru (Región Cajamarca). Salamandra. 57(1); 15-26.
  9. doi:10.1080/23766808.2020.1869449
    .
  10. doi:10.1080/23766808.2021.1940048
    .

References

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  • P.J.R. Kok, Means, D.B., & Bossuyt, F. (2011). "A new highland species of Pristimantis Jimenez de la Espada, 1871 (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Pantepui region, northern South America." Zootaxa 2934: 1–19.
  • T. Orrell. (custodian) (2012). ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (version April 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 25 June 2012 (Bisby F., Roskov Y., Culham A., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.
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