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<emphasis box="[277,518,1134,1158]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Craugastor montanus</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[142,459,1180,1204]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Microbatrachylus montanus</emphasis>
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. Holotype
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(
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) from Mount Ovando,
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,
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<emphasis box="[142,436,1270,1294]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Eleutherodactylus sartori</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[142,408,1330,1353]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Craugastor montanus</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[169,295,1411,1435]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
—Based on
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(
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). Aspecies of
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<emphasis box="[142,266,1441,1464]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Craugastor</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[734,754,1469,1494]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">¼</emphasis>
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); (2) ossification of most of skeleton in adults; (3) presence of posterolateral projection of frontoparietal; (4) presence of vomerine odontophores; (5) presence or absence of raised tubercles on eyelids; (6) supratympanic fold moderate to poorly developed; (7) face flank barred with or without canthal stripe, 12 particularly dark bars below eye; (8) one (or two fused) postrictal tubercles; (9) gular region with pale spotting; (10) dorsal surface blotched or unicolored pale; diffuse interorbital bar, small suprascapular spots; sometimes with two dark rump spots (11) middorsal ridge present; (12) dorsum smooth with only few fine tubercles; (13) body flank darker anteriorly (post axillary), slightly shagreened to smooth; (14) inguinal gland present and axillary gland present in adults; (15) when leg adpressed to body, heel reaches snout tip or beyond; (16) outer tarsal ridge with 02 small and round tubercles close to heel, no raised fringe; (17) finger and toe tips round, finger tips slightly or not expanded, toe tips expanded; (18) inner metatarsal tubercle larger than outer metatarsal tubercle.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[871,1037,247,271]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Comparisons.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[1064,1306,247,271]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Craugastor montanus</emphasis>
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can be differentiated from
<emphasis box="[959,1466,276,300]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" box="[959,1149,276,300]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="candelariensis">C. candelariensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" box="[1161,1274,276,300]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cueyatl">C. cueyatl</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1936" box="[1285,1462,276,300]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hobartsmithi">C. hobartsmithi</taxonomicName>
,
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and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" box="[844,1021,305,329]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="portilloensis">
<emphasis box="[844,1021,305,329]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. portilloensis</emphasis>
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by equal sizes of the inner and outer metatarsal tubercles (unequal sizes in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1279,1422,335,359]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1279,1422,335,359]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
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). It can be differentiated from
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" box="[1100,1234,364,388]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bitonium">
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and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ahumada-Carrillo et al. 2013:" authorityYear="1338" box="[1291,1435,365,388]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">
<emphasis box="[1291,1435,365,388]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. pygmaeus</emphasis>
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by the absence of a posterolateral projection of the frontoparietal (present in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[978,1122,423,447]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[978,1122,423,447]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). It can be differentiated from
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="polaclavus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. polaclavus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" box="[1032,1158,452,476]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rubinus">
<emphasis box="[1032,1158,452,476]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. rubinus</emphasis>
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by the absence of vomerine odontophores (present in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1137,1280,482,505]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1137,1280,482,505]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). It can be differentiated from
<emphasis box="[973,1312,511,535]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[973,1122,511,535]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">C. mexicanus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1133,1307,511,535]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="omiltemanus">C. omiltemanus</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName box="[1366,1481,511,535]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saltator">
<emphasis box="[1366,1481,511,535]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. saltator</emphasis>
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by the general shape of its skull (
<figureCitation box="[1260,1356,540,564]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="13.[166,180,718,737]" captionTargetBox="[144,812,188,697]" captionTargetId="figure-340@13.[143,812,188,697]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIG. 12.—Skull shape variation within the Craugastor mexicanus series as depicted by principal components analysis of 14 geometric morphometric landmarks (Fig. 10). The first 7 principal components explained ~75% of the variance. The second and third principal components are depicted because they maximized differences between large-bodied and small bodied species." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518611" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518611/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
). It can be differentiated from
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<emphasis box="[1089,1249,570,593]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
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by the condition of supratympanic folds in adults; moderate to poorly developed in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[874,1015,629,652]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[874,1015,629,652]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
versus developed in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1251,1399,629,652]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[1251,1399,629,652]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It can be differentiated from
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1062,1234,657,681]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="omiltemanus">
<emphasis box="[1062,1234,657,681]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. omiltemanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by ventral skin texture in life; smooth to granular in
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1139,1280,687,710]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1139,1280,687,710]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
versus areolate in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. omiltemanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It can be differentiated from
<taxonomicName box="[1354,1475,716,740]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="saltator">
<emphasis box="[1354,1475,716,740]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. saltator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by relative leg length; crus 5359% SVL in
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<emphasis box="[1295,1437,746,769]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
versus 6273% SVL in
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<emphasis box="[1029,1146,775,799]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. saltator</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="29" pageNumber="29" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="29.[844,1514,188,2001]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[871,1022,804,828]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Description.</emphasis>
—In previous literature, described as moderately sized (males average
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SVL, females average 24.0 mm SVL); Finger Ishorter than Finger II; three palmar tubercles; testes black; inner metatarsal tubercle larger than outer metatarsaltubercle (
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).
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[1315,1514,921,946]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales" page="133" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="129 - 156" part="24" refId="ref37957" refString="Lynch, J. D. 2000. The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia). Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales 24: 129 - 156." title="The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia)" type="journal article" year="2000">Lynch (2000:133)</bibRefCitation>
redescribed
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<emphasis box="[983,1126,951,975]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lynch" authorityYear="1965" box="[1175,1281,951,975]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sartori">
<emphasis box="[1175,1281,951,975]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">E. sartori</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) owing to errors in
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor's" box="[844,1014,980,1004]" firstAuthor="Taylor's" journalOrPublisher="University of Kansas Science Bulletin" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="67 - 89" part="28" refId="ref39344" refString="Taylor, E. H. 1942. New tailless Amphibia from Mexico. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 28: 67 - 89." title="New tailless Amphibia from Mexico" type="journal article" year="1942">Taylors (1942)</bibRefCitation>
original description that were repeated by
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[844,987,1009,1033]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Chicago Academy of Science, USA" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" refId="ref37877" refString="Lynch, J. D. 1965. A Review of the Eleutherodactylid Frog Genus Microbatrachylus (Leptodactylidae). Chicago Academy of Science, USA." title="A Review of the Eleutherodactylid Frog Genus Microbatrachylus (Leptodactylidae)" type="book" year="1965">Lynch (1965</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[1000,1054,1009,1033]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Herpetologica" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="172 - 180" part="26" refId="ref37930" refString="Lynch, J. D. 1970. Taxonomic notes on some Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica 26: 172 - 180." title="Taxonomic notes on some Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae)" type="journal article" year="1970">1970</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="29" pageNumber="29" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="29.[844,1514,188,2001]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[871,1028,1039,1063]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Distribution.</emphasis>
—This species is known from intermediate to high elevations (~
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) of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico (
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[1212,1350,1097,1122]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="129 - 156" part="24" refId="ref37957" refString="Lynch, J. D. 2000. The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia). Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales 24: 129 - 156." title="The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia)" type="journal article" year="2000">Lynch 2000</bibRefCitation>
), and adjacent regions of the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala (
<bibRefCitation author="Crawford, A. J. &amp; E. N. Smith" box="[851,1148,1156,1180]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="536 - 555" refId="ref35831" refString="Crawford, A. J., and E. N. Smith. 2005. Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 536 - 555." type="journal article" year="2005">Crawford and Smith 2005</bibRefCitation>
). This region contains a complex mixture of dry forests, mixed forests, cloud forests, and pine oak forests.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="29.[844,1514,188,2001]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[871,1046,1244,1268]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Phylogenetics.</emphasis>
—In the concatenated analysis,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was recovered as the sister taxon of all other members of the
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[914,1060,1303,1326]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[914,1060,1303,1326]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
series (ML
<emphasis box="[1192,1212,1301,1326]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">¼</emphasis>
66, BAYES
<emphasis box="[1349,1369,1301,1326]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">¼</emphasis>
0.99;
<figureCitation box="[1435,1500,1303,1327]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="8.[142,156,1857,1876]" captionTargetBox="[295,1312,189,1835]" captionTargetId="figure-1@8.[294,1312,187,1835]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIG. 3.—Concatenated Maximum Likelihood analyses of two mitochondrial (12S and 16S) and two nuclear (RAG1 and TYR) gene fragments sequenced from the Craugastor mexicanus series (total of 2230 base pairs). Node values correspond to bootstrap support from Maximum Likelihood analysis and posterior probabilities from a Bayesian analysis of the same data set, respectively. Support values are not reported for nodes that had,50/0.50. NS indicates no support in the Bayesian analysis for a depicted relationship. Locality abbreviations are as follows: COL ¼ Colima, HID ¼ Hidalgo, GRO ¼ Guerrero, JAL ¼ Jalisco, MEX ¼ Estado de México, OAX ¼ Oaxaca, PUE ¼ Puebla, and VER ¼ Veracruz." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518593" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518593/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
). It also had this placement in the mtDNA-only analysis (
<figureCitation captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="9.[166,180,1708,1727]" captionTargetBox="[142,1514,192,1686]" captionTargetId="figure-77@9.[142,1518,189,1686]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="FIG. 4.—Maximum Likelihood analyses of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers sequenced from the Craugastor mexicanus series (total of 1047 base pairs). Black circles indicate nodes receiving bootstrap support values.90 from the Maximum Likelihood analysis and 0.90 posterior probabilities in corresponding Bayesian analyses. Where posterior probabilities were.0.90 but Maximum Likelihood bootstrap support was,90, a number indicates the bootstrap support. NS indicates no support in the Bayesian analysis for a depicted relationship. Locality abbreviations are as follows: COL ¼ Colima, HID ¼ Hidalgo, GRO ¼ Guerrero, JAL ¼ Jalisco, MEX ¼ Estado de México, OAX ¼ Oaxaca, PUE ¼ Puebla, and VER ¼ Veracruz." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518597" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518597/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
), but not in the nDNA analysis where it was found with weak support to be the sister taxon of a clade containing all taxa except
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[981,1133,1420,1444]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[981,1133,1420,1444]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Gunther" baseAuthorityYear="1900" box="[1197,1374,1420,1444]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="omiltemanus">
<emphasis box="[1197,1374,1420,1444]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. omiltemanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(ML
<emphasis box="[1448,1468,1419,1444]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">¼</emphasis>
33, BAYES
<emphasis box="[938,958,1448,1473]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">¼</emphasis>
0.73;
<figureCitation box="[1032,1101,1449,1473]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="10.[142,156,1604,1623]" captionTargetBox="[118,1493,187,1579]" captionTargetId="figure-138@10.[118,1494,187,1582]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIG. 5.—Maximum Likelihood analysis of nuclear DNA (nDNA) markers sequenced from the Craugastor mexicanus series (total of 1183 base pairs). Black circles indicate nodes receiving bootstrap support values.90 from the Maximum Likelihood analysis and 0.90 posterior probabilities in corresponding Bayesian analyses. Where posterior probabilities were.0.90 but Maximum Likelihood bootstrap support was,90, a number indicates the bootstrap support. NS indicates no support in the Bayesian analysis for a depicted relationship. Locality abbreviations are as follows: COL ¼ Colima, GRO ¼ Guerrero, JAL ¼ Jalisco, MEX ¼ Estado de México, OAX ¼ Oaxaca, PUE ¼ Puebla, and VER ¼ Veracruz." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518599" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518599/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
). This differs from the phylogenetic placement of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[998,1140,1479,1502]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[998,1140,1479,1502]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lynch" authorityYear="1965" box="[1188,1293,1479,1502]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sartori">
<emphasis box="[1188,1293,1479,1502]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">E. sartori</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in the nDNA-only analysis of
<bibRefCitation author="Crawford, A. J. &amp; E. N. Smith" box="[969,1283,1508,1532]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="536 - 555" refId="ref35831" refString="Crawford, A. J., and E. N. Smith. 2005. Cenozoic biogeography and evolution in direct-developing frogs of Central America (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) as inferred from a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 35: 536 - 555." type="journal article" year="2005">Crawford and Smith (2005)</bibRefCitation>
. In terms of genetic distances (
<tableCitation box="[966,1058,1537,1561]" captionStart="TABLE" captionStartId="7.[169,182,188,207]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="TABLE 4.—Genetic P-distances derived from the concatenated alignment 2230 base pairs of 12S and 16S (mtDNA) þ RAG1 and TYR (nDNA) for species contained within the Craugastor mexicanus series. Bolded distances on diagonal are within species P-distances (if more than a single individual was used to estimate mean genetic distance)." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/DF246666FF8FFF82CBB4C6C6FAA2B9BB" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" tableUuid="DF246666FF8FFF82CBB4C6C6FAA2B9BB">Table 4</tableCitation>
),
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<emphasis box="[1085,1232,1538,1561]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was most similar to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Jameson &amp; Streicher &amp; Manuelli &amp; Head &amp; Smith" authorityYear="2022" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="polaclavus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. polaclavus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(5.7%) followed by similarity with
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[1364,1514,1567,1590]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[1364,1514,1567,1590]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(6.1%).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="30" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="29.[844,1514,188,2001]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[871,986,1625,1649]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Remarks.</emphasis>
—The skull of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1172,1319,1626,1649]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1172,1319,1626,1649]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is similar to
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1936" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hobartsmithi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. hobartsmithi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<emphasis box="[1040,1189,1655,1678]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ahumada-Carrillo et al. 2013:" authorityYear="1338" box="[1040,1185,1655,1678]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">C. pygmaeus</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
with more posteriorly placed anterior suture of the frontoparietal and prootic than in other species. The skull of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1098,1245,1714,1737]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1098,1245,1714,1737]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was also described by
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[844,1003,1743,1767]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="129 - 156" part="24" refId="ref37957" refString="Lynch, J. D. 2000. The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia). Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales 24: 129 - 156." title="The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia)" type="journal article" year="2000">Lynch (2000)</bibRefCitation>
as
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lynch" authorityYear="1965" box="[1061,1176,1743,1766]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sartori">
<emphasis box="[1061,1176,1743,1766]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">E. sartori</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[1201,1360,1742,1767]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Chicago Academy of Science, USA" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" refId="ref37877" refString="Lynch, J. D. 1965. A Review of the Eleutherodactylid Frog Genus Microbatrachylus (Leptodactylidae). Chicago Academy of Science, USA." title="A Review of the Eleutherodactylid Frog Genus Microbatrachylus (Leptodactylidae)" type="book" year="1965">Lynch (1965)</bibRefCitation>
created the neonym,
<emphasis box="[947,1233,1772,1796]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lynch" authorityYear="1965" box="[947,1229,1772,1796]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sartori">Eleutherodactylus sartori</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
because
<taxonomicName authorityName="Schmidt" authorityYear="1919" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Eleutherodactylus montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was preoccupied by a West Indian species. This is the most southernly distributed species in the
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
series.
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[1041,1281,1860,1884]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[1041,1281,1860,1884]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Craugastor montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
likely co-occurs with
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ahumada-Carrillo et al. 2013:" authorityYear="1338" box="[844,988,1890,1913]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="pygmaeus">
<emphasis box="[844,988,1890,1913]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. pygmaeus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="29.[844,1514,188,2001]" lastBlockId="30.[118,788,837,1416]" lastPageId="30" lastPageNumber="30" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">
The
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locality of
<taxonomicName authority="(Bumzahem 1955)" baseAuthorityName="Bumzahem" baseAuthorityYear="1955" box="[1096,1408,1918,1943]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="greggi">
<emphasis box="[1096,1196,1919,1942]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. greggi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Bumzahem, C. B." box="[1211,1399,1918,1943]" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" pagination="118 - 119" refId="ref35643" refString="Bumzahem, C. B. 1955. A New species of frog of the genus Eleutherodactylus from Guatemala. Copeia 1955: 118 - 119." type="journal article" year="1955">Bumzahem 1955</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
is Volcan Tajumulco in San Marcos, Guatemala near where we sampled
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[949,1095,1978,2001]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="29" pageNumber="29" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[949,1095,1978,2001]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
for our molecular analysis (
<figureCitation box="[1428,1501,1977,2001]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="11.[166,180,657,676]" captionTargetBox="[142,817,180,644]" captionTargetId="figure-472@11.[143,812,187,636]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="FIG. 6.—Distribution of Craugastor mexicanus, C. montanus, C. pygmaeus, and C. saltator in Mexico and Guatemala. Dots inside symbols indicate individuals used in the molecular analyses in this study. Relevant type localities are indicated by text and arrows." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518676" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518676/files/figure.png" pageId="29" pageNumber="29">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
). Although
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Bumzahem" baseAuthorityYear="1955" box="[231,336,837,861]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="greggi">
<emphasis box="[231,336,837,861]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. greggi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was placed in the
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Dumeril" baseAuthorityYear="1853" box="[562,682,837,861]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="laticeps">
<emphasis box="[562,682,837,861]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. laticeps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
series of
<bibRefCitation author="Hedges, S. B. &amp; W. E. Duellman &amp; M. P. Heinicke" box="[118,344,866,890]" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" refId="ref36765" refString="Hedges, S. B., W. E. Duellman, and M. P. Heinicke. 2008. New World Direct-Developing Frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular Phylogeny, Classification, Biogeography, and Conservation. Magnolia Press, New Zealand." type="book" year="2008">Hedges et al. (2008)</bibRefCitation>
, it is allied to the
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[539,685,867,890]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[539,685,867,890]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
series by having Finger Ishorter than Finger II. This affinity was noted in the original description:
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<emphasis box="[512,788,925,949]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">Eleutherodactylus greggi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems to agree most closely with the member of the
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Brocchi" baseAuthorityYear="1877" box="[118,485,983,1007]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mexicanus">
<emphasis box="[118,485,983,1007]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">Eleutherodactylus mexicanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group... (
<bibRefCitation author="Bumzahem, C. B." pageId="30" pageNumber="30" pagination="118 - 119" refId="ref35643" refString="Bumzahem, C. B. 1955. A New species of frog of the genus Eleutherodactylus from Guatemala. Copeia 1955: 118 - 119." type="journal article" year="1955">Bumzahem 1955:119</bibRefCitation>
). However,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bumzahem" authorityYear="1955" box="[365,470,1013,1036]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="greggi">
<emphasis box="[365,470,1013,1036]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. greggi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was differentiated from
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis box="[247,389,1040,1066]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">
¼
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lynch" authorityYear="1965" box="[280,389,1042,1066]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sartori">E. sartori</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
) by
<bibRefCitation author="Lynch" box="[448,601,1042,1066]" firstAuthor="Lynch" journalOrPublisher="Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" pagination="129 - 156" part="24" refId="ref37957" refString="Lynch, J. D. 2000. The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia). Revista de La Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales 24: 129 - 156." title="The relationships of an ensemble of Guatemalan and Mexican frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae: Amphibia)" type="journal article" year="2000">Lynch (2000)</bibRefCitation>
on the basis of fusion between the last presacral vertebrae and sacrum (not fused in
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<emphasis box="[241,390,1101,1124]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Nonetheless, our preliminary examinations of the
<typeStatus box="[362,457,1129,1153]" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">holotype</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bumzahem" authorityYear="1955" box="[508,616,1130,1153]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="greggi">
<emphasis box="[508,616,1130,1153]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. greggi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[638,725,1129,1154]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="30.[142,156,726,745]" captionTargetBox="[118,1494,189,705]" captionTargetId="figure-633@30.[118,1494,189,705]" captionTargetPageId="30" captionText="FIG. 28.—Female holotype of Craugastor greggi (FMNH 20876, SVL ¼ 36.0 mm) of the C. laticeps series (sensu Hedges et al. 2008) from Volcan Tajumulco, near San Marcos, Guatemala, in dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views. Images courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History. A color version of this figure is available online." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6518643" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6518643/files/figure.png" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">Fig. 28</figureCitation>
) and collections from the Sierra de Chiapas suggest that future research is needed to confirm
<taxonomicName authorityName="Bumzahem" authorityYear="1955" box="[451,552,1188,1212]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Eleutherodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="greggi">
<emphasis box="[451,552,1188,1212]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. greggi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be differentiated from
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Taylor" baseAuthorityYear="1942" box="[182,325,1218,1241]" class="Amphibia" family="Craugastoridae" genus="Craugastor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Anura" pageId="30" pageNumber="30" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="montanus">
<emphasis box="[182,325,1218,1241]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="30">C. montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
because the taxa are united by multiple characters including (but not limited to) adult body size, presence of vomerine odonotophores, presence of posterolateral projection of frontoparietal, gular region with pale spotting, finger lengths, toe lengths, unequal sizes of the inner and outer metatarsal tubercles, and geographic distribution.
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