Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes stejnegerianus Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 338. Holotype: "No. 295" in Museo Nacional de Costa Rica; now presumed lost. Type locality: "Palmar", Provincia Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

Eleutherodactylus stejnegerianus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 7.

Microbatrachylus stejnegerianus — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 676.

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

Craugastor stejnegerianus — 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: 361.

Craugastor (Craugastor) stejnegerianus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

English Names

Stejneger's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Humid lowlands and premontane slopes on the Pacific versant of western Panama and Costa Rica, on the Meseta Central Occidental, and in gallery forests in the subhumid northwest and peripherally on the Atlantic lowlands near Laguna Arenal, 3-1330 m elevation.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus bransfordii by Miyamoto, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 43-51. See comment under Eleutherodactylus bransfordii. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 2610262, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus rhodopis series, Eleutherodactylus rhodopis group. In the Craugastor rhodopis species series, Craugastor podiciferus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

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