Craugastor taurus (Taylor, 1958)
Eleutherodactylus taurus Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 17. Holotype: KU 43866 (not KU 43867 as reported by Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 292), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 324. Type locality: "Golfito, [Cantón de Golfito,] Puntarenas Province", Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 91-92, commented on the type locality.
Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) taurus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317. by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.
Craugastor taurus — 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) taurus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.
English Names
Golfito Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).
Distribution
Lowland evergreen forests of the Golfo Dulce region of Pacific southwestern Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama, 25-525 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 280-282. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 252-253, 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: 312.
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