Eleutherodactylus cruzi McCranie, Savage, and Wilson, 1989, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 102: 483. Holotype: KU 209037, by original designation. Type locality: "south slope of Cerro Búfalo (15° 38′ N, 86° 47′ W), elevation 1520 m, Cordillera de Nombre de Dios, Departamento de Atlántida, Honduras".
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) cruzi — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.
Craugastor cruzi — 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 (Campbellius) cruzi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 34.
Cruz Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Known only from the type locality in the Cordillera de Nombre de Dios, Departamento de Atlántida, Honduras, elevation of 1520 m.
In the Eleutherodactylus milesi group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) milesi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. See account by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 380-382. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 301.
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