Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus escoces Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 280. Holotype: LACM 76857, by original designation. Type locality: "Costa Rica: Provincia de Heredia: Canton de San Rafael: south slope of Volcan Barba: E margin Alto de Roble, 0.5 km N Cerro Chompipe, nr. Rio Las Vueltas: 2030 m." Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 103, commented on the type locality.

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

Craugastor escoces — 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) escoces — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

English Names

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

Distribution

Premontane and lower montane evergreen forest (1100-2100 m) on the volcanos Barba, Irazú, and Turrialba, Costa Rica.

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus angelicus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. See account by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 269-271. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 249-250, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. 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: 303.

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