Craugastor ranoides (Cope, 1886)
Lithodytes ranoides Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 275. Syntypes: USNM 14179 (4 specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 66; USNM 14179A designated lectotype by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 272. Type locality: "Nicaragua"; restricted to between El Castillo and San Juan Norte, Departamento de Rio San Juan, Nicaragua, by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 275.
Liohyla ranoides — Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 335.
Liohyla pittieri Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 223. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens); BMNH 1947.2.16.13 designated lectotype by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 289. Type locality: "Costa Rica" and "Boruca", Costa Rica; restricted by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 748, and by lectotype designation to "Boruca, [Cantón de Buenos Aires, Provincia de Puntarenas,] Costa Rica". Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 81. Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus rugulosus by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 273; with Lithodytes ranoides by Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 108, and Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 264.
Eleutherodactylus ranoides — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Noble, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 327; Barbour, 1923, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 129: 10.
Eleutherodactylus pittieri — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 108-109; Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 748.
Hylodes ranoides — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 431.
Hylodes pittieri — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 435.
Craugastor ranoides — 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) ranoides — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Southern Atlantic lowland Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica through Costa Rica to extreme western Panama, exclusive of the Golfo Dulce region.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus rugulosus (but retained in the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group and posited to be a composite of several species) by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 264, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1965, Herpetologica, 21: 102-113. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 251-252, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. In the Craugastor punctariolus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 42. 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. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Zumbado-Ulate and Willink, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 236, provided a record of an extant population on the Peninsula de Santa Elena, Costa Rica.
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