Craugastor psephosypharus (Campbell, Savage, and Meyer, 1994)
Eleutherodactylus psephosypharus Campbell, Savage, and Meyer, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 413. Holotype: UTA A-18194, by original designation. Type locality: "7.8 km WSW Puerto Santo Tomás, 375 m, northeastern slope Montañas del Mico, Departamento de Izabal, Guatemala, . . . . This locality is located on the eastern slopes of the Montañas del Mico at about 15° 41′ N, 88° 40′ W. The town of Santo Tomás is called Puerto Santo Tomás de Castilla or Puerto Matías de Gálvez on some maps."
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) psephosypharus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231.
Craugastor psephosypharus — 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) psephosyphrus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Warty Forestfrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 54).
Limestone Rainfrog (Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 69).
Distribution
Mountains of eastern Guatemala and adjacent Belize, elevation 150-1170 m; expected, but not so far collected, in Honduras.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. See accounts by Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 54; Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 243-247, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 69. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. 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.
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