Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes polyptychus Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 276. Syntypes: USNM 14199 (2 specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 61. Type locality: "Nicaragua".

Eleutherodactylus polyptychus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Noble, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 328; Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 161; Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 7.

Microbatrachylus polyptychus — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 667.

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Humid lowlands of the Atlantic drainage of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and adjacent northwestern Panama.

Comment

Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 260, provided an account for this species, provisionally resurrected it from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus bransfordii (where it had been placed by Savage and Emerson, 1970, Copeia, 1970: 623-644), noted its close relationship to Eleutherodactylus underwoodi, and placed it 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.

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