Craugastor brocchi (Boulenger, 1882)
Hylodes brocchi Boulenger In Brocchi, 1882, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 2): 60. Holotype: IRSNB 2616 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 10. Type locality: "Guatemala".
Eleutherodactylus brocchi — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Stuart, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 200.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) brocchi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor brocchi — 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) brocchi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Guatemala Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Brocchi's Rainfrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).
Distribution
Atlantic versant slopes of the northern highlands of Guatemala from the Sierra de las Minas and ranges of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz westward through the Sierra de Los Cuchumatanes to northwestern Huehuetenango and the Lagos de Montebello region of Chiapas, Mexico, in cloud forest and humid pine-oak forest at elevations between 1200 and 2000 m.
Comment
Reviewed by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 229-232. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. 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: 300.
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