Craugastor fitzingeri (Schmidt, 1857)
Hylodes fitzingeri Schmidt, 1857, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 24: 12. Holotype: KM 1012/1343, lost according to Savage, 1970, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 38: 273-288, who designated LACM 76859 neotype. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 530, discussed reasons for rejecting the neotype designation. Type locality: "Neu-Granada"; expanded by Schmidt, 1858, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 14: 248 to "Cordilleren von Neu-Granada [western Panama] in einer Höhe von gegen 4000′ [Polish feet, therefore = 915 m, according to Savage, 1970, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 38: 273-288]". Neotype from "Panamá: Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island, near the laboratory".
Hyla grisea Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 485. Holotype: Not stated, although possibly still in USNM; reported as ANSP, lost, by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 296, who designated LACM 76859 neotype. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 530, rejected the neotype designation. Type locality: "Nicaragua". Neotype from "Panamá: Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island, near the laboratory". Synonymy by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 289-299.
Hylodes (Craugastor) fitzingeri — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.
Craugastor pulchrigulus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 357. Holotype: USNM 4354, lost, according to Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 296, who designated LACM 76859 neotype. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 530, rejected the neotype designation. Type locality: "Truando", Depto. Chocó, Colombia. Neotype from "Panamá: Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island, near the laboratory". Synonymy by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 298.
Hylodes (Craugastor) pulchrigulus — Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 48.
Hylodes (Craugastor) griseus — Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 48.
Lithodytes (Craugastor) griseus — Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 132.
Leiyla Güntheri Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 296. Holotype: ZIUG, now destroyed, according to Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 296, who designated LACM 76859 as neotype. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 530, rejected the neotype designation. Type locality: "Costarica". Neotype from "Panamá: Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island, near the laboratory". Also described as new by Keferstein, 1868, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1868: 330. Synonymy by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 289-299. Junior secondary homonym of Hylodes güntheri Steindachner, 1864.
Lithodytes guentheri — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 16.
Liohyla guentheri — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 220.
Hylodes nubilus Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 237. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.15.80 (formerly 1902.5.13.29), according to XXX. Type locality: "Costa Rica, [Provincia de San José, Cantón de Escazú,] Escazu", 1000 m. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 90, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 289-299.
Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 385.
Eleutherodactylus nubilus — Noble, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 331. Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 762.
Eleutherodactylus griseus — Cei, 1956, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 3: 54.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor fitzingeri — 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) fitzingeri — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.
English Names
Fitzinger's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Distribution
Humid lowlands and lower montane forest (0-1200 m) from northeastern Honduras, eastern Nicaragua and south and east throughout both Atlantic and Pacific versants of Costa Rica and Panama, and into northwestern Colombia in the inter-Andean valleys and in the Chocoan lowlands as far south as the Bay of Buenaventura.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. See accounts and discussions by Savage, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 298; Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 530-537; Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 240-241 (who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, and detailed confusion in the literature with Eleutherodactylus nubilis and Eleutherodactylus ranoides), and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 392-395. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.
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