Craugastor pelorus (Campbell and Savage, 2000)
Eleutherodactylus pelorus Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 218. Holotype: KU 171218. Type locality: "2.7 km N Solosuchiapa, ca. 400 m, Chiapas, Mexico. This site lies in premontane Wet Forest at about 17° 27′ N, 93° 03′ W."
Craugastor pelorus — 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) pelorus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Monstrous Rainfrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).
Distribution
Caribbean slopes of northern Chiapas, Mexico, where it is known from along the small, upper tributaries that drain into the lower Río Grijalva and Río Usumacinta, 400-1700 m elevation in cloud forest.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group according to the original publication.
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