Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes bufoniformis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 19. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.15.68 (formerly 95.11.6.54), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 277. Type locality: "Buenaventura", Colombia.

Eleutherodactylus bufoniformis — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 410.

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

Craugastor bufoniformis — 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.

Limnophys bufoniformis — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Strabomantis bufoniformis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132.

English Names

Rusty Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Distribution

Southeastern Costa Rica to western Colombia; Gorgona I.

Comment

Description amplified by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 375. Diagnosis and account provided by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 24-25. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) bufoniformis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 256-257, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus bufoniformis group. In the Strabomantis bufoniformis species series, of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 132.

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