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Eleutherodactylus longipes (Baird, 1859)
Batrachyla longipes Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): 35. Holotype: USNM 3237; now lost, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 107; see discussion by Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81–83. Type locality: "Mexico"; considered to be 40 leagues [about 120 miles, according to Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81] north of Mexico City by Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 16; see Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 107, for discussion.
Hylodes (Batrachyla) longipes — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.
Epirhexis longipes — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 96.
Hylodes longipes — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 42; Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 162: 240.
Eleutherodactylus longipes — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81; Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 95. 107; Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198; by implication; Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318.
Syrrhophus latodactylus Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 397. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6807, by original designation; now FMNH 100063 according to according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 66. Type locality: "Huasteca Cañon, about 15 km. west of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, elevation about 680 meters". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 30. Opinion 1024, Anonymous, 1974, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 31: 130–132, stated that Syrrhophus latodactylus is not to be used in preference of Batrachyla longipes when considered synonyms.
Eleutherodactylus latodactylus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198, by implication.
Syrrhophus longipes — Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 30.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes — 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.
Syrrhophus longipes — 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.
Common Names
Long-footed Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Long-footed Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19).
Longfoot Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).
Long-footed Chirping Frog (Conzelman, 1973, HISS News J., 1: 153; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).
Distribution
Moderate elevations (650–2000 m) along the Sierra Madre Oriental in pine-oak woodland from central Nuevo León and adjacent eastern Coahuila through eastern San Luis Potosí to northern Hidalgo, Mexico.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes group, Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus longipes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 90. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 355. Conzelman, 1973, HISS News J., 1: 153, provided a record for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2007, Anf. Rept. Coahuila México: 50–52, provided an account for Coahuila, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 49, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 365–366, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico. Hernández-Austria, García-Castillo, and Parra-Olea, 2024, Zootaxa, 5471: 433–450, discussed the molecular phylogenetics of the species and provided a dot map of the distribution.
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