Craugastor glaucus (Lynch, 1967)

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

Eleutherodactylus glaucus Lynch, 1967, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 70: 177. Holotype: TCWC 21463, by original designation. Type locality: "1.6 km SW San Cristobal [de las Casas], Chiapas, México, 2100 m."

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) glaucusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

Craugastor glaucusCrawford 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 (Hylactophryne) glaucusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

English Names

Gray Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, ca. 2100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Ford and Savage, 1984, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 110: 7, questioned the inclusion of this species in any species group. Campbell, Lamar, and Hillis, 1989, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 102: 491-499, placed this species in the Eleutherodactylus alfredi group (subgenus Craugastor) as did the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. 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: 303. 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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