Craugastor milesi (Schmidt, 1933)
Eleutherodactylus milesi Schmidt, 1933, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 18. Holotype: FMNH 4699, by original designation. Type locality: "Mountains west of San Pedro, Honduras. Altitude 4500 feet."
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) milesi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor milesi — 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 (Campbellius) milesi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 34.
English Names
Miles' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Distribution
Premontane and lower montane forests of the Sierra Omoa and Sierra Espíritu Santo (1050-1700 m) of northwestern Atlantic slope Honduras. Possibly extinct (see comment).
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group of Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 481-572. See accounts by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 287, and McCranie and Wilson, 1997, Alytes, 14:147-174 (who note that the species probably does not occur at its now highly altered type locality), and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 410-413 (who suggest that this taxon is extinct). In the Eleutherodactylus milesi group of Savage, 1987, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S.,, 33: 1-57. See comments under Eleutherodactylus stadelmani and Eleutherodactylus matudai. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 138, who regarded the species as extinct. Kolby and McCranie, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 282-283, reported a surviving population in Parque Nacional Cusuco, Honduras.
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