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Craugastor nefrens (Smith, 2005)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Craugastorinae > Genus: Craugastor

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Eleutherodactylus nefrens Smith, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 287. Holotype: UTA A-45279, by original designation. Type locality: "La Firmeza, Sierra de Caral, Municipio de Morales, Departamento de Izabal, Guatemala, 840 m".

Craugastor nefrens — 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 (Hylactophryne) nefrens — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Elevations of 800-1000 m in the Sierra de Caral, Departamento de Izabal, Guatemala; probably into adjacent Honduras.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus spatulatus subgroup of the Eleutherodactylus alfredi group according to the original publication. McCranie and Smith, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 190, suggested that this species will be found in northwestern Honduras. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

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