Craugastor angelicus (Savage, 1975)
Eleutherodactylus angelicus Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 274. Holotype: LACM 76856, by original designation. Type locality: "Costa Rica: Provincia de Alajuela: Canton de Alajuela: Salto El Angel, 1380 m." Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 76, commented on the type locality.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) angelicus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor angelicus — 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) angelicus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Angel Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).
Distribution
Cordillera de Tilarán (1200-1600 m) and northern (600-1700 m) and eastern (900-1400 m) slopes of Volcán Poas in Costa Rica.
Comment
Most closely related to Eleutherodactylus escoces and Eleutherodactylus fleischmanni according to Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 299. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. See account by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 268-269. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 248-249, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. In the Craugastor punctariolus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 42. 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: 299.
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