Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus crassidigitus Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 740. Holotype: KU 28369, by original designation. Type locality: "Isla Bonita, eastern slope Volcán Poás", Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela, 1680 m, Costa Rica. Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 79.

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

Craugastor crassidigitus — 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) crassidigitus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

English Names

Isla Bonita Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Northern Costa Rica south and east through Panama to extreme northwestern Colombian border, 10-2000 m elevation.

Comment

See account by Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 523-530, who noted that this species may be the sister-species of Eleutherodactylus longirostris plus Eleutherodactylus talamancae, and may contain unrecognized sibling species. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 238-239, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, and detailed the confusion in the literature of this species with Eleutherodactylus longirostris. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

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