Eleutherodactylus pipilans (Taylor, 1940)

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

Syrrhophus pipilans Taylor, 1940, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 53: 95. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6843, by original designation; now FMNH 100072 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 66. Type locality: "9 mi. south of Mazatlán, Guerrero, México (km. 337)".

Syrrhophus pipilans pipilansDuellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 9.

Eleutherodactylus pipilansMyers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) pipilansHedges, 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 pipilansFrost, 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 pipilans — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

Whistling Chirping Frog (Syrrhophus pipilans: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Whistling Chirping Frog (Syrrhophus piplans pipilans: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Guerrero Peeping Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Rodriguez, and Jones, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15(e272): 35). 

Distribution

Submontane south-central Guerrero from Atoyac east to southeast-central Oaxaca (west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec), Mexico. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) pipilans group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) pipilans group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, in the monotypic Eleutherodactylus pipilans species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 132. Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Rodriguez, and Jones, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15(e272): 1–35, provided key comparative characters (external morphology and advertisement call) for identification of members of their Eleutherodactylus nitidus group, recognized Eleutherodactylus nebulosus separate from Eleutherodactylus pipilans, and places Eleutheordactylus rubrimaculatus into synonymy. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus 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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