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Eleutherodactylus colimotl Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) colimotl Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 12. Holotype: MZFC 29282, by original designation. Type locality: "3.5 km N of the junction of Highway 54 and the road to Ixtlahuacán, on the Hwy 54 frontage road, Municipio de Tecomán (19.052126°, -103.786360°; datum WGS 84; elev. 337 masl), Colima, Mexico". urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EDC9AB7-94EE-4EAC-89B4-19F5218A593A
English Names
Colima Peeping Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 73).
Distribution
Known from the vicinity of the type locality in the Municipio de Tecomán, Colima, and west to the Municipio de Aquila in western Michoacán, Mexico, 100 to 400 m elevation, in karstic foothills in tropical deciduous forest.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural resident: Mexico
Endemic to the political unit: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus series. Eleutherodactylus modestus species group, and most similar to Eleutherodactylus manantlanensis according to the original publication, although its call is diagnostic. Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 8–83, discussed the range, call, comparative morphology, and molecular phylogenetics of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics.
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