Genus Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

Type species: Pristimantis galdi Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, by monotypy.

Remarks: Heinicke et al. (2007) split long-established genus Eleutherodactylus, formerly in family Leptodactylidae (Lynch 1971, 1981; Frost 1985; Duellman 1993; Lynch and Duellman 1997) and placed afterwards in family Brachycephalidae by Frost et al. (2006) containing three major genera: Eleutherodactylus for mainly Caribbean species, Craugastor Cope, 1862 for mainly Central American species, and Pristimantis for almost all South American (and some Central American) species. Hedges et al. (2008) offered a more comprehensive view of the so-called “eleutherodactylines” and erected the new unranked taxon Terrarana (emended as Terraranae by Heinicke et al. 2018) for four families ( Brachycephalidae, Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae, and Strabomantidae). As of this writing, the phylogenetic arrangement remains in flux. Most South American species formerly in Eleutherodactylus are now members of Pristimantis, within Craugastoridae (after Padial et al. 2014). The most recent approach (Heinicke et al. 2018) recovers Tachiramantis as part of Craugastoridae, and Pristimantis into Strabomantidae . Mucubatrachus La Marca, 2007 and Paramophrynella La Marca, 2007 are considered synonyms of Pristimantis sensu (Hedges et al. 2008; Barrio-Amorós et al. 2013; Padial et al. 2014).

Selected references: Lutz (1927); Lynch (1976); La Marca (1992); Barrio-Amorós (1998, 2004, 2009); Heinicke et al. (2007); Hedges et al. (2008); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2013); Padial et al. (2014).