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Craugastor crassidigitus (Taylor, 1952)
Eleutherodactylus crassidigitus Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 740. Holotype: KU 28369, by original designation. Type locality: "Isla Bonita, eastern slope Volcán Poás", Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela, 1680 m, Costa Rica. Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 79.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) crassidigitus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor crassidigitus — Crawford 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) crassidigitus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.
Common Names
Isla Bonita Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Distribution
Northern Costa Rica south and east through Panama to extreme northwestern Colombian border, 10–2000 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama
Comment
See account by Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 523–530, who noted that this species may be the sister-species of Eleutherodactylus longirostris plus Eleutherodactylus talamancae, and may contain unrecognized sibling species. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 238–239, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, and detailed the confusion in the literature of this species with Eleutherodactylus longirostris. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 122. 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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