Yunganastes mercedesae

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 Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Brachycephaloidea

Familia: Strabomantidae
Subfamilia: Pristimantinae
Genus: Yunganastes
Species: Yunganastes mercedesae

Name

Yunganastes mercedesae (Lynch & McDiarmid, 1987)

Type locality: "ca. 3.3 km north of Cochabamba to Villa Tunari on road to San Onofre, at a point 97.5 km from Cochabamba, Provincia Chapare, Departamento Cochabamba, Bolivia, ca. 1690 m".

Holotype: USNM 257848.

Synonyms

Eleutherodactylus mercedesae Lynch & McDiarmid, 1987
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) mercedesae — Lynch & Duellman, 1997
Pristimantis mercedesae — Heinicke, Duellman & Hedges, 2007
Pristimantis (Yunganastes) mercedesae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Yunganastes mercedesae — Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2009

References

Lynch, J.D. & R.W. McDiarmid. 1987: Two new species of Eleutherodactylus (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100: 337–346.
Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (Suppl. Inform.), 104: Table 2
Padial, J.M., S. Castroviejo-Fisher & I. De la Riva. 2009: The phylogenetic relationships of Yunganastes revisited (Anura: Terrarana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52: 911–915. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.006 Abstract
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Yunganastes mercedesae (Data Deficient) Downloaded on 14 May 2008. (as Eleutherodactylus mercedesae)

Vernacular names

English: Mercedes' Robber Frog