Eleutherodactylus jaliscoensis Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018

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

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) jaliscoensis Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 28. Holotype: MZFC 33275, by original designation. Type locality: "on the dirt portion of the old highway between Mascota and San Sebastian del Oeste, 20.8 airline km NNW of Mascota, Sierra Mascota, Municipio de Mascota (20.69802°, -104.86718°, datum WGS 84; elev. 2,037 masl), Jalisco, Mexico". Zoobank publication registration: 3EDC9AB7-94EE-4EAC-89B4-19F5218A593A

English Names

Jalisco Trilling Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 73). 

Distribution

Elevations ranging from 1700 to 2300 m in the higher portions of the Sierra Mascota, Sierra Cuale, and Sierra Cacoma in the municipalities of Mascota and Talpa de Allende, Jalisco, Mexico. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: 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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