Craugastor talamancae (Dunn, 1931)

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

English Names

Almirante Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Extreme eastern Panama through Costa Rica to Nicaragua, 15–646 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, possibly nearest to Eleutherodactylus longirostris, according to Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 541. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 244–245, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Craugastor fitzingeri species series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 122. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. 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. Twining and Cossel, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30 (e18581): 1–4, reported on vocalizations. 

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