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Eleutherodactylus floresvillelai Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) floresvillelai Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 23. Holotype: MZFC 33060, by original designation. Type locality: "junction of Mexico Hwy. 15 and the Tzitzio Rd. (Highway 49), approximately 25 km E of the outskirts of Morelia, Municipio de Charo (19.650774°, -100.943879°; datum WGS 84; elev. 2,225 masl), Michoacán, Mexico". urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EDC9AB7-94EE-4EAC-89B4-19F5218A593A
English Names
Flores' Peeping Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 73).
Distribution
Known to occur at elevations ranging from 2100 to 2400 m in the vincity of the type locality (25 km east of the outskirts of Morelia, Municipio de Charo) along the windward slopes of the Sierra de Mil Cumbres, within the Transverse ranges of east-central Michoacán, and is known only from the immediate vicinity of the type locality oak woodland, and pine-oak forest.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural resident: Mexico
Endemic to the political unit: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus series. Eleutherodactylus modestus species group, according to Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 8–83, who 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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