Craugastor andi (Savage, 1974)
Eleutherodactylus andi Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 295. Holotype: LACM 76858, by original designation. Type locality: "Costa Rica: Provincia de San Jose: Canton de Coronado: 0.8 km N juncture Rio Claro and Rio La Hondura, 1150 m".
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) andi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor andi — 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 (Craugastor) andi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.
English Names
Atlantic Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).
Distribution
Premontane rainforests on the Atlantic slopes of the Cordillera Central and extreme northeastern Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica, and extreme western Panama, 1000-1200 m.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor and from the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 237-238, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor melanostictus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37. 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: 298, who did not include Panama within the range.
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