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Eleutherodactylus teretistes (Duellman, 1958)
Syrrhophus teretistes Duellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 10. Holotype: UMMZ 115451, by original designation. Type locality: "3 miles northwest of Tepic, Nayarit (±2950 feet)", Mexico.
Eleutherodactylus teretistes — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196, by implication.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) teretistes — 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 teretistes — 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.
English Names
Whistling Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).
Duellman's Trilling Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 74).
Distribution
Moderate elevations (840–1200 m) in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Nayarit to western Jalisco, Mexico.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural resident: Mexico
Endemic to the political unit: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 40. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 54–55, discussed the diagnostic differences of this species from Eleutherodactylus pallidus, as well as providing phylogenetic placement, and discussion morphology, call, and redelimitation of range. 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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