Craugastor lauraster (Savage, McCranie, and Espinal, 1996)
Eleutherodactylus lauraster Savage, McCranie, and Espinal, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 366. Holotype: USNM 344826, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada El Piñol (15° 07′ N, 86° 43′ W), Parque Nacional La Muralla, Departamento de Olancho, Honduras, elevation 1200 m".
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) lauraster — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227.
Craugastor lauraster — 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) lauraster — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Eastern Honduras to northern Nicaragua in isolated populations, 40-1200 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus rhodopis group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. Köhler, 1999, Cour. Forschungsinst. Senckenb., 213: 27, mapped the Nicaraguan range. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 403-406, provided an account. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. In the Craugastor rhodopis species series, Craugastor podiciferus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41. 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: 305. Travers, Townsend, Sunyer, Obando, Wilson, and Nickerson, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 399, noted a new locality in Nicaragua (Jinotega).
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