Dermophis costaricense Taylor, 1955
Dermophis costaricense Taylor, 1955, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 37: 506. Holotype: KU 36343, by original designation. Type locality: "Cinchona, [Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia Alajuela,] Heredia Province [in error], Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 85, corrected the type locality. Species name is a noun in apposition.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Upper slopes of the montane Atlantic versant of Costa Rica.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Dermophis mexicanus by Savage and Wake, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 52-64, where it had been placed by Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 680-695. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 839, provided a brief account.
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