Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes bocourti Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 130. Syntypes: MNHNP 6413-14, 6471 (total of 8 specimens); MNHNP 6413 designated lectotype by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 28. Type locality: "montagnes de Coban", Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

Liohyla bocourti — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 222.

Eleutherodactylus bocourti — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Stuart, 1948, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 69: 22.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) bocourti — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor bocourti — 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 (Hylactophryne) bocourti — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

English Names

Bocourt's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Mountains in the Departamento Alta Verapaz and the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala, 1300-1700 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. 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: 300.

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