Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides (Cope, 1877)

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

Phyllobates cystignathoides Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 89. Syntypes: USNM 32402-04, 32406-09 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69), MCZ 25732 (according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170l; formerly USNM 32405). Type locality: "Potrero near Cordova [=Córdoba], Vera Cruz under decayed trunks of trees", Mexico.

Syrrhophus cystignathoides — Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 268.

Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.

Syrrhaphus cystignathoides — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 218.

Syrraphus cystignathoides — Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Encuent. Rep. Mex.: 10.

Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170.

Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) cystignathoides — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides cystignathoides — Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19.

Syrrhophus cystignathoides — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.

Euhyas cystignathoides — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

Mexican Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides cystignathoides: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Provisionally, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and central Veracruz (Mexico). 

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrophus) leprus group, the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus leprus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 89, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. López-Mejía and Goyenechea, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, provided a record for the Municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, Mexico, and discussed the Hidalgan range.Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 45, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Wallace, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 494–495, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 197–199, provided accounts that summarized the literature and range of the species (in the sense of including Eleutherodactylus campi). Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 364–365, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Serrano and Penna, 2018, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 123: 388–401, reported on vocalizations. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20: 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics. 

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