Craugastor mexicanus (Brocchi, 1877)

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

Leiuperus mexicanus Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 184. Holotype: MNHNP 6318, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 108; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Mexique". Restricted to "San Felipe, Cerro (15 kilometers northeast of Oaxaca)", Oaxaca, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 339.

Paludicola ? mexicanaBoulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 237.

Paludicola mexicanaNieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 513.

Pleurodema mexicanaParker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 475.

Microbatrachylus oaxacae Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 504-507. Holotype: EHT-HMS 18197, by original designation; now FMNH 100001, according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "on Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 176.

Microbatrachylus lineatissimus Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 87. Holotype: EHT-HMS 24289, by original designation; now FMNH 100036 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca; elevation between 7,000 and 8,000 ft.", Mexico. Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 172-180.

Microbatrachylus fuscatus Davis and Dixon, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 146. Holotype: TCWC 12171, by original designation. Type locality: "20 miles east of Tulancingo, 7300 ft., Hidalgo, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.

Eleutherodactylus mexicanus fuscatusLynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.

Eleutherodactylus oaxacaeLynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.

Eleutherodactylus lineatissimusLynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.

Eleutherodactylus mexicanusGorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 86; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 54.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) mexicanusHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor mexicanusCrawford 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 (Craugastor) mexicanusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 39.

English Names

Mexican Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Distribution

Widespread throughout eastern Mexico in high-elevation habitats (1554–2700 m) of Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo, and Veracruz; these habitats span the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre del Sur. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See discussion by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 133–135. In the Craugastor (Craugastormexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, and Ahumada-Carrillo, 2020, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 3: 61–82, noted an MCZ specimen with likely erroneous collection data from Colima, Mexico. See account by Jameson, Streicher, Manuelli, Head, and Smith, 2022, Herpetol. Monogr., 36: 27–29, who placed this in their Craugastor mexicanus series and redelimited the species, as well as providing descriptive morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers.  

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