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Craugastor polyptychus (Cope, 1886)
Hylodes polyptychus Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 276. Syntypes: USNM 14199 (2 specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 61. Type locality: "Nicaragua".
Eleutherodactylus polyptychus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Noble, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 328; Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 161; Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 7.
Microbatrachylus polyptychus — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 667.
Craugastor podiciferus — 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) polyptychus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Many-folds Flesh-bellied Frog (Cossel, Twining, Di Stefano, O’Brien, Reich, and Sandoval-Alanis, 2019, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 14: 236).
Distribution
Humid lowlands of the Atlantic drainage of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and adjacent northwestern Panama, below 260 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
Comment
Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 260, provided an account for this species, provisionally resurrected it from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus bransfordii (where it had been placed by Savage and Emerson, 1970, Copeia, 1970: 623-644), noted its close relationship to Eleutherodactylus underwoodi, and placed it in his Eleutherodactylus rhodopis series, Eleutherodactylus rhodopis group. In the Craugastor rhodopis species series, Craugastor podiciferus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. 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. McCranie, Sunyer, and Martínez-Fonseca, 2019, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 52: 27, suggested the distinction from Craugastor bransfordii requires additional study.
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