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Craugastor saltuarius (McCranie and Wilson, 1997)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Craugastorinae > Genus: Craugastor

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Eleutherodactylus saltuarius McCranie and Wilson, 1997, Alytes, 14: 165. Holotype: USNM 497115, by original designation. Type locality: "south slope of Cerro Búfalo (15° 39′ N, 86° 48′ W), elevation 1550 m, Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Departamento de Atlántica, Honduras".

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) saltuarius — McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 437.

Craugastor saltuarius — 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 (Campbellius) salutarius — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 34. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Intermediate elevations (1550-1800 m elevation) from two localities in lower cloud forest in the Cordillera Nombre de Dios of north-central Honduras (departments of Atlantida and Yoro).

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus milesi group according to the original publication. See account by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 435-437. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 310.

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