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Craugastor mexicanus (Brocchi, 1877)
Leiuperus mexicanus Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 184. Holotype: MNHNP 6318, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 108; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Mexique". Restricted to "San Felipe, Cerro (15 kilometers northeast of Oaxaca)", Oaxaca, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 339.
Paludicola ? mexicana — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 237.
Paludicola mexicana — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 513.
Pleurodema mexicana — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 475.
Microbatrachylus oaxacae Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 504-507. Holotype: EHT-HMS 18197, by original designation; now FMNH 100001, according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "on Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 176.
Microbatrachylus lineatissimus Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 87. Holotype: EHT-HMS 24289, by original designation; now FMNH 100036 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca; elevation between 7,000 and 8,000 ft.", Mexico. Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 172-180.
Microbatrachylus fuscatus Davis and Dixon, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 146. Holotype: TCWC 12171, by original designation. Type locality: "20 miles east of Tulancingo, 7300 ft., Hidalgo, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.
Eleutherodactylus mexicanus fuscatus — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.
Eleutherodactylus oaxacae — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.
Eleutherodactylus lineatissimus — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.
Eleutherodactylus mexicanus — Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 86; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 54.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) mexicanus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor mexicanus — 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) mexicanus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 39.
English Names
Mexican Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).
Distribution
Widespread throughout eastern Mexico in high-elevation habitats (1554–2700 m) of Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo, and Veracruz; these habitats span the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre del Sur.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See discussion by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 133–135. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) mexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, and Ahumada-Carrillo, 2020, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 3: 61–82, noted an MCZ specimen with likely erroneous collection data from Colima, Mexico. See account by Jameson, Streicher, Manuelli, Head, and Smith, 2022, Herpetol. Monogr., 36: 27–29, who placed this in their Craugastor mexicanus series and redelimited the species, as well as providing descriptive morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers.
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