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Craugastor pozo (Johnson and Savage, 1995)
Eleutherodactylus pozo Johnson and Savage, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 501. Holotype: UTEP 8340, by original designation. Type locality: "12 km NW of Berriozábal (elev. ca. 1060 m), Municipality of Berriozábal, Chiapas, México (ca. 16° 53′ N lat., 93° 23′ W long.)".
Craugastor pozo — 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) pozo — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Poza Turipache Rainfrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).
Distribution
Forested localities on the southern edge of the Northern Highlands physiographic region of Chiapas, Mexico, 700–1200 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group, most similar to Eleutherodactylus brocchi, according to the original publication; in the subgenus Craugastor by implication. See account by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 210–212. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 308. 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. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) punctariolus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123.
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