Craugastor pygmaeus (Taylor, 1937)
Eleutherodactylus pygmaeus Taylor, 1937 "1936", Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 39: 352. Holotype: EHT-HMS 3691, by original designation; now UIMNH 16125, according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 315. Type locality: "1 mile north of Rodriguez Clara, Vera Cruz", Mexico.
Microbatrachylus albolabris Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 502. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6407, by original designation; now FMNH 100071 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "two miles west of Córdoba, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1961, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 34.
Microbatrachylus pygmaeus — Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 500.
Microbatrachylus minimus Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 507. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6416, by original designation; now FMNH 100323 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "Agua del Obispo, Guerrero (km. 350) in pine forest", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1961, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 34.
Microbatrachylus imitator Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 70. Holotype: USNM 115508, by original designation. Type locality: "La Esperanza, near Escuintla, Chiapas", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1961, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 34.
Eleutherodactylus pygmaeus — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 9.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) pygmaeus — 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 pygmaeus — 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) pygmaeus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 39.
English Names
Pigmy Free-fingered Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20).
Pigmy Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).
Distribution
Extreme southern Michoacán and México (state) in Mexico, south and east along the Pacific slope to Guatemala; Veracruz and eastern Oaxaca, Mexico, on the Atlantic slope.
Comment
See discussion by Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 1-12. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. 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: 309.
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