Craugastor chac (Savage, 1987)
Eleutherodactylus chac Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 33: 31. Holotype: KU 186243, by original designation. Type locality: "12.6 km west of Santo Tomás, [Departamento] Izabal, Guatemala".
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) chac — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.
Craugastor chac — 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) chac — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38.
English Names
Izabal Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Chac's Leaf-litter Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 52).
Chac's Rainfrog (Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 60; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 64).
Distribution
Lowland and premontane evergreen forests of the Atlantic versant at the base of the Yucatan Peninsula in Guatemala, Belize, and northwestern coastal Honduras, 20-1000 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus gollmeri group according to the original publication, which is part of Lynch's more inclusive Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) gollmeri group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 59-60; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 52; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 64-65; and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 361-367 (who noted the difficulty of distinguishing in some cases this species from Eleutherodactylus rostralis). Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus gollmeri group. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. In the Craugastor laticeps species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 618-619.
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