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Barking Frog
Craugastor augusti (Dugès, in Brocchi, 1879)

Current SSAR Comments:
Goldberg et al. (2004, Herpetologica 60: 312–320) suggested that C. a. cactorum and C. a. latrans are different species but did not make the taxonomic change. Fouquette and Dubois (2014, Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles, Xlibris 7(1)), referring to the work by Goldberg et al. (op. cit.) proposed recognition of the two subspecies. We do not recognize any subspecies pending additional data, preferably including nuclear DNA, and more substantial sampling in Mexico.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Robber Frog (Lithodytes latrans: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus latrans: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Barking Frog (Eleutherodactylus latrans: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Barking Frog (Eleutherodactylus augusti: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Mexican Cliff Frog (Eleutherodactylus augusti: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus augusti: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Texan Cliff Frog (Eleutherodactylus latrans: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Western Barking Frog (Eleutherodactylus augusti: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1879 Brocchi, P. Sur divers batraciens anoures de l’Amérique Centrale. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. [On various anuran amphibians from Central America. ] Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris [Bulletin of the Philomathic Society of Paris]. Series 7. 3():19–24
1967 Zweifel, Richard G. Eleutherodactylus augusti. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (41):1–4
2004 Goldberg, Caren S., Brian K. Sullivan, John H. Malone, and Cecil R. Schwalbe. Divergence among barking frogs (Eleutherodactylus augusti) in the Southwestern United States. Herpetologica 60(3):312–320
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2014 Fouquette, Martin J., Jr. and Alain DuBois. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles: The United States and Canada. Xlibris, Bloomington, Indiana. 614pp.

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