Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 37: 527. Holotype: KU 35615, by original designation. Type locality: "4 km NNE of Tilarán [= Finca San Bosco, Cantón de Tilarán], [Provincia] Guanacaste, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 104, commented on the type locality.

Phyllomedusa saltator — Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 36.

English Names

Misfit Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands of northeastern Honduras, Nicaragua, to east-central Costa Rica, 15-1300 m elevation.

Comment

See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 99-102, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 839. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 239-241. McCranie, Wilson, and Townsend, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 316, provided an additional record for Honduras. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615. In the Agalychis callidryas group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Travers, Townsend, Sunyer, Obando, Wilson, and Nickerson, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 399, noted a third locality in Nicaragua (Jinotega).

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