Eleutherodactylus olanchano McCranie and Wilson, 1999, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 112: 518. Holotype: USNM 529998, by original designation. Type locality: "from a hillside above the Quebrada El Pinol (15° 07′ N, 86° 44′ W), Parque Nacional La Muralla, Departamento de Olancho, Honduras, 1200 m elev."
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) olanchano — McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 420.
Craugastor olanchano — 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) olanchano — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
None noted.
Moderate elevations (1180-1350 m) in premontane wet forests on the Atlantic versant in the northwestern part of the Department of Olancho, northeastern Honduras.
In the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group according to the original publication. See accounts by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 263-264; Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226 (who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group), and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 418-420. 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 (as Eleutherodactylus olanchano) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 362.
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