Pristimantis viejas Lynch & Rueda-Almonacid, 1999

Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia & Arroyo, Sandy, 2019, Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia, Check List 15 (3), pp. 387-404 : 393-394

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15560/15.3.387

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scientific name

Pristimantis viejas Lynch & Rueda-Almonacid, 1999
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Pristimantis viejas Lynch & Rueda-Almonacid, 1999 View in CoL Figure 4A

Eleutherodactylus viejas Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid 1999: 311 View in CoL . Pristimantis viejas View in CoL — Hedges et al. 2008: 121.

Males SVL = 15.3–19.1 mm, females 24.0– 29.1 mm ( Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid 1999). Rounded snout; males have vocal slits, nuptial pads and tubercles on the external edge of the tarsus; Finger II longer than Finger I; posterior surfaces of the thigh dark brown with orange spots. Two individuals were observed during the study in sub Andean and riparian forest, on leaves of plants and bushes, close to the ground. This is the first record of the species in the department of Boyacá, since it was only reported previously in the mid Magdalena region, on the eastern slope of the Cordillera Central in the departments of Antioquia and Caldas, and on the western slope of the Cordillera Oriental in the departments of Cundinamarca and Santander, at elevations between 600 and 1800 m ( Lynch and Rueda-Almonacid 1999).

Hedges SB, Duellman WE, Heinicke MP (2008) New World directdeveloping frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, clas- sification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737: 1 - 182.

Lynch JD, Rueda-Almonacid JV (1999) New species of frog from low and moderate elevations from the Caldas transect of the eastern flank of the Cordillera Central. Revista de La Academia Colom- biana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales 23 (87): 307 - 314.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Craugastoridae

Genus

Pristimantis