Craugastor alfredi (Boulenger, 1898)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Genus: Craugastor > Species: Craugastor alfredi

Hylodes alfredi Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 480–481. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.54 (formerly 1898.2.19.1) and 1947.2.14.55 (formerly 1898.4.7.1) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 99; MNHNP 1899.19 recorded as holotype in error by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 27. Flores-Villela, Ríos-Muñoz, Magaña-Cota, and Quezadas-Tapia, 2016, Zootaxa, 4092: 48, noted specimens in MDUG that may have been part of the original collection but which are not part of Boulenger's syntypic series. Type locality: "Atoyac, State of Veracruz", Mexico.

Eleutherodactylus alfrediStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 94.

Eleutherodactylus conspicuus Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 567. Holotype: USNM 116509, by original designation. Type locality: "Piedras Negras, Guatemala, near the Mexico-Guatemala border". Synonymy by Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246; Duellman, 1960, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 54.

Eleutherodactylus alfredi conspicuusShreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfrediHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) conspicuusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. No discussion.

Craugastor alfrediCrawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 360.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) alfrediHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

English Names

Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Alfredo's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi: Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 58; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 63).

Alfred's Climbing Frog (Craugastor alfredi: Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 51).

Northern Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi alfredi: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18).

Northern Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi alfredi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Southern Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi conspicuus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18).

Southern Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi conspicuus: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Distribution

Lowland wet forest from central-eastern Veracruz (Mexico) to western El Petén, Guatemala, 0–600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246–247, considered Eleutherodactylus conspicuus a subspecies of Craugastor alfredi, whereas Duellman, 1960, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 53–54, saw little justification for recognizing Craugastor alfredi conspicuus as distinct at all. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. See accounts by Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 51–52; and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 63–64. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected the recognition of species groups within Hylactophryne. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 298. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the genera and species of Brachycephaloidea (= Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae) in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species, including this one.

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