Craugastor omiltemanus (Günther, 1900)

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

Syrrhaphus omiltemanus Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 216. Syntypes: BMNH 1901.12.19.7-8 (now reregistered to 1947.2.16.62-63) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 109, and museum records. Type locality: "Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero 8000 feet".

Hylodes calcitrans Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 157: 230. Syntypes: BMNH 1901.12.19.25-43 (Omilteme) and BMNH 1901.12.19.35-36 (Jalisco) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 110. Type locality: "Mexico, Omilteme in Guerrero" and "Jalisco", Mexico; restricted to "Omilteme, Guerrero", Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 62. Jalisco syntypes identified as Craugastor occidentalis by Streicher, García-Vázquez, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela, Campbell, and Smith, 2014, Syst. Biodiversity, 12: 1–22. Synonymy with Craugastor omiltemanus by Dunn in Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 1-224; and Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 175-176.  

Eleutherodactylus calcitrans — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 93.

Eleutherodactylus omiltemanusLynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 175.

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

Craugastor omiltemanusCrawford 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) omiltemanusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 39.

English Names

Guerreran Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20).

Gunther's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Günther's Robber Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Omilteme Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

High elevations (1818–2600 m) of the Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 61: 1–24, placed the Mexican and Central American species Eleutherodactylus greggi, Eleutherodactylus glaucus, Eleutherodactylus omiltemanus, and Eleutherodactylus batrachylus in his Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. Ford and Savage, 1984, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 110: 1–9, considered Eleutherodactylus glaucus and Eleutherodactylus batrachylus unassignable to species group and regarded the remaining species (Eleutherodactylus greggi, Eleutherodactylus omiltemanus, and a new species, Eleutherodactylus daryi) to form a monophyletic group (their Eleutherodactylus omiltemanus group) not associated with the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225, and Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 129–156, who also discussed this species (pp. 136–138). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 306. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) mexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See account by Jameson, Streicher, Manuelli, Head, and Smith, 2022, Herpetol. Monogr., 36: 30–32, who placed this in their Craugastor mexicanus series as well as providing descriptive morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers.    

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