Craugastor melanostictus (Cope, 1875)

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

Lithodytes melanostictus Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 109. Holotype: USNM 30608 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 66. Type locality: "7000 feet elevation on the Pico Blanco", Provincia Limón, eastern Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110. See also discussion of type locality by Arias and Chaves, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 176–180, who concluded that the type locality is actually ""Near another unnamed hill at the headwaters of the Río Lari, elev. 2,135 m", Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. 

Hylodes melanostictusBrocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 56.

Hylodes platyrhynchus Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 157: 230–231. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.14.81 (formerly 1905.7.18.1), according to museum records. Type locality: "Costa Rica". Synonymy by Savage and DeWeese, 1981 "1980", Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 928–942.

Eleutherodactylus platyrhynchusStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus melanostictusStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 728.

Eleutherodactylus platyrhynchusTaylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 757.

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

Craugastor melanostictusCrawford 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) melanostictusHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

English Names

Black-lined Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Humid forests in the Cordillera de Tilarán, Costa Rica, to Chiriquí massif of western Panama, 1150–2700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

Reviewed by Savage and DeWeese, 1981 "1980", Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 928–942, who placed it in the Eleutherodactylus melanostictus group, and considered Eleutherodactylus platyrhynchus to be a synonym. Miyamoto and Tennant, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 765–768, transferred it to the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group sensu Savage, 1980, Prelim. Handlist Herptofauna Costa Rica. See comment under Eleutherodactylus monnichorum. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 241–242, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor melanostictus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. 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: 306. 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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