Craugastor evanesco Ryan, Savage, Lips, and Giermakowski, 2010

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

Craugastor evanesco Ryan, Savage, Lips, and Giermakowski, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 405. Holotype: USNM 572840, by original designation. Type locality: X"Panama, Coclé Province, Parque Nacional G. D. Omar Torrijos H. (El Copé), headwaters of Rio Guabal, 8° 39.59′ N, 80° 35.33′ W, 709 m.a.s.l. elevation".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Tropical Premontane Rainforest zone in the Serranía de Tabasará from El Copé, Coclé Province east to Río Indio Arriba on the Atlantic versant, Panama, 80 to 709 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Panama

Endemic: Panama

Comment

In the Craugastor rugulosus series, and possibly extinct in the wild since 2004, according to the original publication. 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. In the Craugastor (Craugastorpunctariolus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123.

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