Craugastor bocourti

Craugastor bocourti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Craugastoridae
Genus: Craugastor
Species: C. bocourti
Binomial name
Craugastor bocourti
(Brocchi, 1877)
Synonyms

Hylodes bocourti Brocchi, 1877
Eleutherodactylus bocourti (Brocchi, 1877)

Craugastor bocourti (common name Bocourt's robber frog) is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family. It is endemic to Guatemala and found on the mountains of the Alta Verapaz Department and the Sierra de las Minas.[1][2] It is named after Marie Firmin Bocourt, a French zoologist and artist.[3]

Its natural habitat is cloud forest where it lives on the forest floor. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by agriculture, wood extraction, and human settlement.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Acevedo, M. & Smith, E. (2004). "Craugastor bocourti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2004: e.T56468A11481964. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Craugastor bocourti (Brocchi, 1877)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  3. Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (22 April 2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
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