Pristimantis vilarsi ( Melin 1941 )

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, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 129

Pristimantis vilarsi ( Melin 1941)

Syntypes: NHMG 491 (two specimens) .

Type locality: Taracuá, Rio Uaupés, (Amazonas State), Brazil.

Distribution: Regions 4, 5. Upper Amazonian Region of Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. In Venezuela, widespread south of Orinoco River.

Remarks: A redescription of the species and map of its distribution appeared in Barrio-Amorós and Molina (2006). Heyer and Barrio-Amorós (2009) described the call. Eleutherodactylus stegolepis Schlüter and Rödder, 2007 is a junior synonym ( Kok and Barrio-Amorós 2013). In Pristimantis conspicillatus species group of Hedges et al. (2008) and Padial et al. (2014).

Selected references: Melin (1941); Rivero (1961, 1964b, 1967a); Lynch (1975 a, 1976, 1979b, 1980); Rivero et al. (1986); La Marca (1992); Barrio (1996a); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio-Amorós and Molina (2006); Schlüter and Rödder (2007); Heyer and Barrio-Amorós (2009); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b); Kok and Barrio-Amorós (2013).