Pristimantis acuminatus

Pristimantis acuminatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachycephaloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Brachycephaloidea

Familia: Craugastoridae
Subfamilia: Ceuthomantinae
Genus: Pristimantis
Species: Pristimantis acuminatus

Name

Pristimantis acuminatus (Shreve, 1935)

• Holotype: MCZ 19951, adult ♂, collected by O.C. Felton in April 1932.
• Type locality: “Canelos, [Pastaza Province,] Ecuador”.

Combinations

• Eleutherodactylus acuminatus Shreve, 1935: 217 [original combination]
• Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) acuminatus — Lynch, 1996 [subsequent combination]
• Pristimantis acuminatus — Heinicke, Duellman & Hedges, 2007: Table 3 [subsequent combination]
• Pristimantis (Pristimantis) acuminatus — Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008: 128 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Shreve, B. 1935. On a new teiid and Amphibia from Panama, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8: 209–218.
• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E. & Hedges, S.B. 2007. Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(24): 10092–10097. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611051104 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ortega-Andrade, H.M., Rojas-Soto, O.R., Valencia, J.H., Espinosa de los Monteros, A., Morrone, J.J., Ron, S.R. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Insights from Integrative Systematics Reveal Cryptic Diversity in Pristimantis Frogs (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the Upper Amazon Basin. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0143392. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143392 Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Pristimantis acuminatus . Accessed on 12 May 2008.
• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2019. IUCN: Pristimantis acuminatus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T87738003A61409186. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T87738003A61409186.en. Accessed on 02 May 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Canelos Robber Frog