Barking Frog Craugastor augusti  (Dugès, 1879)

Taxonomic Comments:

Caren S. Goldberg, Brian K. Sullivan, John H. Malone and Cecil R. Schwalbe (2004. Divergence among Barking Frogs (Eleutherodactylus augusti) in the Southwestern United States. Herpetologica 60(3): 312-320), using call variation and mtDNA, demonstrated that the two U.S. subspecies, Eleutherodactylus augusti latrans and E. a. cactorum, may be distinct species. Additional data is needed from Mexican specimens to clarify the status of these two taxa. Andrew J. Crawford and Eric 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 & Evolution 35(3): 536-555) placed the North American species Eleutherodactylus augusti in the genus Craugastor.