:Craugastor

{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Craugastor longirostris.jpg

| image_caption = Craugastor longirostris

| taxon = Craugastor

| authority = Cope, 1862

| type_species = Hylodes fitzingeri

| type_species_authority = Schmidt, 1857

| diversity = See text)

| synonyms =

  • Microbatrachylus Taylor, 1940 "1939"
  • Hylactophryne Lynch, 1968
  • Campbellius Hedges, Duellman & Heinicke, 2008

}}

Craugastor is a large genus of frogs in the family Craugastoridae{{cite journal |author1=Hedges, S. B. |author2=Duellman, W. E. |author3=Heinicke, M. P. |name-list-style=amp |year=2008 |title=New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation |journal=Zootaxa |issue=1737 |pages=1–182 |url=http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/196.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610104006/http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/196.pdf |archivedate=2010-06-10 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Craugastoridae.shtml | title=Craugastoridae. in: AmphibiaWeb - Information on Amphibian Biology and Conservation | accessdate=2010-07-13 | publisher=University of California, Berkeley, CA | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025100608/http://amphibiaweb.org/lists/Craugastoridae.shtml | archive-date=2010-10-25 | url-status=dead }} with 126 species.

Its scientific names means brittle-belly, from the Ancient Greek {{Transliteration|grc|krauros}} ({{lang|grc|κραῦρος}}, brittle, dry) and {{Transliteration|grc|gastēr}} ({{lang|grc|γαστήρ}}, belly, stomach).{{cite book|last=Dodd|first=C. Kenneth|title=Frogs of the United States and Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Hwfz9P9gS0C&pg=PR20|volume=1|date=2013|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0633-6|page=20}}

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Craugastor:{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Craugastoridae/Craugastorinae/Craugastor |title=Craugastor Cope, 1862 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |accessdate=16 February 2015}}

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