Craugastor rivulus (Campbell and Savage, 2000)

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

Eleutherodactylus rivulus Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 224. Holotype: UMMZ 90951, by original designation. Type locality: "Samac-Chama Trail on Finca Samac, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. This site lies inthe 'coffee belt' at about 1250 m . . . Premontane Wet Forest."

Craugastor rivulusCrawford 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) rivulusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Highlands of northern Guatemala including the mountains of Alta Verapaz and the eastern portion of the Sierra de Los Cuchumatanaes in Quiché, 770–1250 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala

Endemic: Guatemala

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group according to the original publication. In the Craugastor punctariolus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 42, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus rivulus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 374. 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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