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* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
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Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Craugastor laticeps (Duméril, 1853)

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

Hylodes laticeps Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 178. Holotype: MNHNP 509, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 106; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 28. Type locality: "Yucatan", Mexico; restricted to "Champotón, Campeche", Mexico, by Firschein, 1951, Copeia, 1951: 268, who discussed the collector's travels; actually probably from near Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala according to Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 33: 23.

Epirhexis laticeps — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 17.

Eleutherodactylus laticeps — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 93.

Eleutherodactylus stantoni Schmidt, 1941, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 22: 483. Holotype: UMMZ 80673, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 14. Type locality: "Valentin, British Honduras [= Belize]". Synonymy by Neill, 1965, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 9: 85; and Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 33: 23.

Eleutherodactylus werleri Lynch and Fritts, 1965, Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 58: 46-49. Holotype: UIMNH 42987, by original designation. Type locality: "east slope of Volcan San Martin Pajapan at 4,000 feet elevation, Veracruz, Mexico". Synonymy by Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 33: 19, 23.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) laticeps — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor laticeps — 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) laticeps — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38.

English Names

Broad-headed Cave Frog (Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 106).

Broadhead Rain Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19).

Broad-headed Rain Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Broadheaded Rainfrog (Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 61).

Broadhead Rainfrog (Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 65).

Broad-headed Rainfrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Broad-headed Leaf-litter Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 53).

Distribution

Atlantic premontane slopes and some immediatley adjacent lowland sites from the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz, Mexico, through the base of the Yucatan Peninsula through northern Guatemala and to the Maya Mountains of Belize to western and northern Honduras, near sea level to 1600 m elevation.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus rostralis. See account by Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 33: 19–25, who discussed the synonymy, and who placed this species to be in his more restrictive Eleutherodactylus gollmeri group. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) gollmeri group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. See accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 61–62, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 53; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 65-67; and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 399–403 (who noted the likelihood of cryptic species within this complex). McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. In the Craugastor laticeps species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38. In the subgenus Craugastor but not assigned to species series by Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619. 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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