Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus merendonensis Schmidt, 1933, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 17. Holotype: FMNH 4672, by original designation. Type locality: "lower Santa Ana Canyon, west of San Pedro, Honduras. Altitude 500 feet."

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

Craugastor merendonensis — 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) merendonensis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

English Names

San Pedro Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Northwestern Atlantic lowlands of Honduras at Cañon Santa Ana (150-200 m).

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus rugulosus by Meyer and Wilson, 1971, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 70: 106, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1965, Herpetologica, 21: 102-113. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See accounts by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 250-251, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 408-410. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. In the Craugastor punctariolus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 42. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 306.

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