Craugastor xucanebi (Stuart, 1941)

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

Eleutherodactylus xucanebi Stuart, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 199. Holotype: UMMZ 89914, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 15. Type locality: "Cloud forest above Finca Volcán (49 kilometers (straight line) east of Coban) Alta Verapaz, Guatemala; altitude about 1300 meters".

Eleutherodactylus glaucus Lynch, 1967, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 70: 177. Holotype: TCWC 21463, by original designation. Type locality: "1.6 km SW San Cristobal [de las Casas], Chiapas, México, 2100 m." Synonymy by Streicher, Wiens, Jocqué, García-Vázquez, and Smith, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., 72(23072): 19. 

Eleutherodactylus stuarti Lynch, 1967, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 70: 180. Holotype: UMMZ 126738, by original designation. Type locality: "Aldea Paraiso, 13 km S La Mesilla (on Guatemala—Mexico border), Depto. Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 2200 m." Synonymy by Streicher, Wiens, Jocqué, García-Vázquez, and Smith, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., 72(23072): 19. 

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

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) stuarti — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) glaucus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

Craugastor xucanebiCrawford 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: 361.

Craugastor glaucus — 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 stuarti — 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: 361.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) xucanebiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) glaucus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) stuarti — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

English Names

Xucaneb Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Gray Robber Frog (Craugastor glaucus [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Stuart's Robber Frog (Craugastor stuarti [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).

Distribution

Central highland cloud forests of Alta Verapaz and the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala, 600–1300 m elevation, and the Pacific slope cloud forest of Guatemala from the departments of Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Sololá to adjacent eastern Chiapas, Mexico, at elevations of 1300–2200 m; vicinity of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, ca. 2100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. 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: 313. 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.

Comment associated with Craugastor glaucus prior to its synonymy: Ford and Savage, 1984, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 110ezembed: 7, questioned the inclusion of this species in any species group. Campbell, Lamar, and Hillis, 1989, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 102: 491-499, placed this species in the Eleutherodactylus alfredi group (subgenus Craugastor) as did the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. 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: 303. 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.

Comment associated with Craugastor stuarti prior to its synonymy: In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 311. 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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