Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Lithodytes podiciferus Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 107. Syntypes: Including UMMZ 92433 (formerly USNM 30664), USNM 30662, 30665-75, and MCZ 11841 (formerly USNM 30663) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 66. Type locality: "from the level of 5000 to 7000 feet [elevation] . . . from Pico Blanco", eastern Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 5000-7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 1524-2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110. Synonymy with Lithodytes rhodopis by Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 337.

Lithodytes muricinus Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 107. Types: USNM or ANSP, not located and presumed lost. Type locality: "Pico Blanco", eastern Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 5000-7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 1524-2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110. Synonymy with Lithodytes rhodopis by Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 337. Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 717.

Lithodytes habenatus Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 109. Holotype: USNM or ANSP, not located and presumed lost. Type locality: "Pico Blanco", 5000-7000 feet, eastern Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 5000-7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 1524-2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110. Considered a likely synonym of Lithodytes muricinus by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 203. Synonymy with Lithodytes rhodopis by Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 337. Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 717.

Hylodes podiciferus — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 56.

Hylodes muricinus — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 56.

Hylodes habenatus — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 56.

Lithodytes muricinus muricinus — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 16.

Lithodytes muricinus habenatus — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 16.

Eleutherodactylus podiciferus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 263.

Eleutherodactylus blairi Barbour, 1928, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 29. Holotype: MCZ 13036, by original designation. Type locality: "Gutiérrez, Bocas del Toros Province, Panama (near the Costa Rican frontier)". Tentative synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 717.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) podiciferus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094.

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

English Names

Cerro Utyum Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Cordilleras de Tilarán, Central, and Talamanca in Costa Rica, and the Chiriquí extension of the latter range in western Panama, 1089-2650 m elevation.

Comment

In the less Eleutherodactylus gollmeri group of Savage, 1980, Prelim. Handlist Herptofauna Costa Rica: 7. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 259-260, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus rhodopis series, Eleutherodactylus rhodopis group. In the Craugastor rhodopis species series, Craugastor podiciferus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 308. Streicher, Crawford, and Edwards, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 620-630, suggested on the basis of molecular data that the western Panama and eastern Costa Rica populations may represent distinct species.

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