Plectrohyla dasypus McCranie and Wilson, 1981
Plectrohyla dasypus McCranie and Wilson, 1981, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 92: 1. Holotype: KU 186025, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Cusuco at El Cusuco (15° 30′ N, 88° 13′ W), a finca located 5.6 km WSW Buenos Aires (the last locality about 19 km N Cofradía), 1580 m, Sierra de Omoa, Departamento de Cortés, Honduras".
Hyla dasypus — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25. by implication.
English Names
Honduras Spikethumb Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).
Distribution
Cloud forest at elevations of 1410-1990 m in the Sierra de Omoa in northwestern Honduras.
Comment
See accounts by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1050-1053, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 292-295. In the Plectrohyla guatemalensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 270. Reviewed by McCranie, 2010, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 864: 1-5.
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