Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes longirostris Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 120. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.56-60 (formerly 98.4.28.101-105); MZUT An514 is a syntype according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 48. Type locality: "Cachabé [=Cachabí], a small village on the river of that name . . . Prov. Esmeraladas. . . about 500 feet above the sea", Ecuador. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 515, discussed this locality and noted that it is not the same as San Javier de Cachabí.

Eleutherodactylus longirostris — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 411.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) longirostris — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094.

Craugastor longirostris — 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) longirostris — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

English Names

Longsnout Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Distribution

Darién highlands of extreme eastern Panama, south throughout western Colombia to south Guayas Province, Ecuador, in humid forest below 1200 m elevation; disjunct population in the middle and upper drainage of the Magdalena Valley, Colombia.

Comment

Account provided by Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 537-545. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 111-112, who place it in the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

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