Diasporus hylaeformis (Cope, 1875)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Diasporus > Species: Diasporus hylaeformis

Phyllobates hylaeformis Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 107. Holotype: USNM 30687 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69. Type locality: "mountain of Pico Blanco, at 7000 feet elevation", Prov. Limón, Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 110.See discussion of type locality by Arias and Chaves, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 176–180, who concluded that the type locality is actually "Near another unnamed hill at the headwaters of the Río Lari, elev. 2,135 m", Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica.

Phyllobates hyliformisO'Shaughnessy, 1878, Zool. Rec., 13: 17. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Syrrhopus hylaeformisBoulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.

Syrrhaphus hylaeformisGünther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 218.

Syrrhophus hylaeformisNieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 401.

Eleutherodactylus hylaeformisTaylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 689.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) hylaeformisLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226.

Pristimantis hylaeformisHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Diasporus hylaeformisHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47.

English Names

Pico Blanco Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Humid lower montane situations in the cordilleras of Costa Rica and Panama, 1500–2500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus moro. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 273-274, provided an account and placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group. Transferred to Diasporus by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47, on the basis of molecular data. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus hylaeformis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 620. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the genera and species of Brachycephaloidea (= Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae) in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species, including this one.

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