Craugastor loki (Shannon and Werler, 1955)
Eleutherodactylus loki Shannon and Werler, 1955, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 58: 370. Holotype: Formerly F.A. Shannon 4748 (now in UIMNH according to Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 142). Type locality: "at an altitude of 3500 feet on Volcán San Martín", Veracruz, Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1961, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 18-23; Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 53-54; but see Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130, who considered it distinct.
Eleutherodactylus sanmartinensis Shannon and Werler, 1955, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 58: 375. Holotype: formerly F.A. Shannon 4750 (now presumably in UIMNH). Type locality: "at an altitude of 3500 ft., near a water hole on Volcán San Martín, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus rhodopis by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130; with Eleutherodactylus loki by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 142.
Craugastor loki — 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) loki — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Common Leaf-litter Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 55).
Volcan San Martin Robber Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).
Distribution
Between 9 and 2100 m elevation from San Luis Potosi and Veracruz along the Caribbean lowlands of Mexico to Belize and northwestern Honduras; crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and thence southeast along the Pacific versant of Chiapas and Guatemala to El Salvador.
Comment
See account by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 406-40, and In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 138-143. See accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 64-65, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 55; and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 70-71. In the Craugastor rhodopis species series, Craugastor rhodopis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
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