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Craugastor greggi (Bumzahem, 1955)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Craugastorinae > Genus: Craugastor

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Eleutherodactylus greggi Bumzahem, 1955, Copeia, 1955: 118. Holotype: FMNH 20876, by original designation. Type locality: "Volcan Tajumulco, near San Marcos, Guatemala".

Eleutherodactylus chiquito Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 181: 1. Holotype: UIMNH 55417, by original designation. Type locality: "El Chiquihuite, Chiapas, Mexico, at an elevation of 7000 feet on Volcán Tacaná". Synonymy by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 270.

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

Craugastor greggi — 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) greggi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38.

English Names

Gregg's Stream Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Distribution

Upper portion of the lower montane zone (1500-2700 m) in the mountains of southern Chiapas (Mexico) to Volcán Tajamulco in adjacent southwestern Guatemala.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus omiltemanus group of Ford and Savage; see comment under Eleutherodactylus omiltemanus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) gollmeri group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225, and Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 129-156. In the Craugastor laticeps species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 38. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 304.

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