Diasporus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Diasporus
16 species

Diasporus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47. Type species: Lithodytes diastema Cope, 1875 "1876", by original designation.

English Names

Dink Frogs (Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Mora, and Leal, 2009, Zootaxa, 2088: 1).

Distribution

Extreme eastern Honduras south along the Atlantic coastal plain of Nicaragua to Costa Rica (on both coasts) thence east to the western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

Comment

All members of this taxon were former members of the Eleutherodactylus diastema group. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the sister-taxon relationship of Diasporus and Eleutherodactylus. Hertz, Hauenschild, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2012, ZooKeys, 196: 23-46, provided an identification key to the species of Central America as well as a preliminary phylogenetic tree. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the species of Diasporus in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species. Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Veselý, 2016, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 178: 267–311, reviewed the species of eastern Panama and provided a key to all species in the genus. 

Contained taxa (16 sp.):

Diasporus amirae Arias, Chaves, Salazar, Salazar-Zúñiga, and García-Rodríguez, 2019
Diasporus anthrax (Lynch, 2001)
Diasporus citrinobapheus Hertz, Hauenschild, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2012
Diasporus darienensis Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Vesely, 2016
Diasporus diastema (Cope, 1875)
Diasporus gularis (Boulenger, 1898)
Diasporus hylaeformis (Cope, 1875)
Diasporus igneus Batista, Ponce, and Hertz, 2012
Diasporus majeensis Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Vesely, 2016
Diasporus pequeno Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Vesely, 2016, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 178: 274.
Diasporus quidditus (Lynch, 2001)
Diasporus sapo Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Vesely, 2016, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 178: 274.
Diasporus tigrillo (Savage, 1997)
Diasporus tinker (Lynch, 2001)
Diasporus ventrimaculatus Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Mora, and Leal, 2009
Diasporus vocator (Taylor, 1955)

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