Craugastor gulosus (Cope, 1875)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Craugastorinae > Genus: Craugastor > Species: Craugastor gulosus

Lithodytes gulosus Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 112. Holotype: USNM 32590 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 65. Type locality: "on a spur of the Pico Blanco, at 6000 feet elevation", Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 6000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 1829 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110 and by Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 25. See discussion of type locality by Arias and Chaves, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 176–180, who concluded that the type locality is actually ""Near an unnamed hill close to the Río Lari canyon, elev. 1,830 m", Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. 

Hylodes gulosus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 211; Brocchi, 1882, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 2): 57.

Eleutherodactylus gulosus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 10.

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

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Humid premontane and possibly lower montane areas of the southern Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica and Panama, 1000–1873 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus biporcatus by Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 10, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 1-46. (it had previously been placed in the synonymy of Hylodes rugosus Peters, 1874, by Noble, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 329. In the Eleutherodactylus biporcatus group according to Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 1-21, who provided an account. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 253-254, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus biporcatus group. In the Craugastor gulosus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) punctariolus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 304. 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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