Eleutherodactylus sentinelus Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Rodriguez, and Jones, 2021

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus sentinelus

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) sentinelus Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Rodriguez, and Jones, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15(e272): 9. Holotype: MZFC 33306, by original designation. Type locality: "8.9 km SW of Puerto El Balsamo, Municipality of José Azueta (17.9549, -101.2253, 1,354 m asl; datum = WGS84), Guerrero, Mexico". Zoobank publication registration: 9B3E8106-74E8-428F-B0BB-3CCD9EFDF0F3

English Names

El Balsamo Peeping Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (8.9 km SW of Puerto El Balsamo, Municipality of José Azueta, Guerrero, Mexico),  1300 to 1900 m elevation, on steep slopes in humid pine-oak forest, oak woodland and pine-oak woodland, and tropical deciduous forest ecotone. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus species series and the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus species group, according to the original publication, where the external morphology and advertisement call were detailed as well as placement in a molecular phylogenetic tree and a distribution map.In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics. Grünwald, Montaño-Ruvalcaba, Jones, Ahumada-Carrillo, Grünwald, Zheng, Strickland, and Reyes-Velasco, 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 105, provided a dot map.  

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