Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus tarahumaraensis Taylor, 1940, Copeia, 1940: 250. Holotype: EHT-HMS 23008, by original designation; now UIMNH 15955, according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 333. Type locality: "Mojárachic, Chihuahua, in the Tarahumara Mountains at an elevation of about 6900 feet", Mexico.

Hylactophryne tarahumaraensis — Lynch, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 511.

Eleutherodactylus tarahumaraensis — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) tarahumaraensis — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

Craugastor tarahumaraensis — 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 (Hylactophryne) tarahumaraensis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 44.

English Names

Tarahumara Barking Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).

Distribution

Pine-oak and pine forests of eastern Sonora and western Chihuahua to Jalisco, Mexico, along the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) augusti group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Zweifel, 1956, Am. Mus. Novit., 1813: 28-33. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor augusti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 44. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 312. Ferguson, Turner, Hale, Villa, Hedgecock, and Enderson, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 438-439, provided a record for the Sierra de Bacadéhuachi, municipality of Bacadéhuachi, Sonora, Mexico, and discussed the range of the species in Sonora and adjacent Chihuahua.

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