Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Engystoma elegans Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 162. Holotype: BMNH 56.3.17.27 according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 144, now renumbered as 1947.2.11.86 according to C.E. Nelson in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 380. Type locality: "Cordova" (= Córdoba), Veracruz, Mexico.

Gastrophryne elegans — Stejneger, 1910, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23: 166.

Microhyla elegans — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 126.

Gastrophryne elegans — Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 13.

English Names

Elegant Narrowmouth Toad (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 121).

Elegant Narrow-mouthed Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 96; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 118; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 14).

Elegant Narrowmouthed Toad (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 91).

Distribution

Low elevations from southern Tamaulipas (Mexico) through northern Guatemala and Belize to north-central Honduras on the Atlantic versant.

Comment

Reviewed by Nelson, 1972, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 121: 1-2; details of distribution in Nelson, 1972, J. Herpetol., 6: 128-129. See accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 117-119, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 91-92, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 121-123, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: XXX. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. Farr, Lazcano, and Lavín-Murcio, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 459-467, provided new records for Tamaulipas, Mexico, and commented on the range.

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