Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes raniformis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 19. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.16.16-19 (formerly 95.11.16.48-51) (Buenaventura), 1947.2.15.83-84 (formerly 95.11.16.52-53) (Cali); BMNH 1947.2.16.16 designated lectotype by Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 545. Type locality: "Buenaventura and Cali", [Departamento Valle del Cauca,] Colombia; restricted to Buenaventura, Departamento Valle del Cauca, Colombia, by lectotype designation.

Eleutherodactylus raniformis — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Gorham, 1963, Canad. Field Nat., 77: 18.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) raniformis — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor raniformis — 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) raniformis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

English Names

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

Distribution

South from east-central Panama to the Río San Juan de Micay in western Colombia, in the forested lowlands north and west of the Andes; possibly isolated populations in the inter-Andean valleys of the Río Cauca and Río Magdalena, Colombia.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) fitzingeri group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. Account provided by Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 545-551. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 226, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group. In the Craugastor fitzingeri series, Craugastor fitzingeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 37.

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