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Eleutherodactylus verrucipes (Cope, 1885)
Syrrhophus verrucipes Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383. Holotype: ANSP 11325, according to Firschein, 1954, Copeia, 1954: 55. Type locality: "in the neighborhood of the town of Zacualtipan in the north-eastern part of the State of Hidalgo, close to the boundary line of the State of Vera Cruz . . . . in the bottom of a rocky gorge of a stream near its junction with the San Miguel river, at a depth of at least 1800 feet below the level of the town of Zacualtipan", Hidalgo, Mexico.
Syrrhopus verrucipes — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.
Syrrhaphus verrucipes — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 216.
Tomodactylus macrotympanum Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 496. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6838, by original designation; now FMNH 100049 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 67. Type locality: "south of Jacala, Hidalgo, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 1–45.
Syrrhophus macrotympanum — Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 384.
Eleutherodactylus verrucipes — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196, by implication.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) verrucipes — 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 verrucipes — 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
Bigear Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21).
Big-eared Chirping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).
Distribution
Pine-oak woodland and cloud forest at moderate elevations (200–1300 m) in southeastern San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Guanajuato, and northwestern Hidalgo, Mexico.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnockii group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnocki group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus guttilatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. 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: 389. Arenas-Monroy, Carbajal-Márquez, García-Balderas, Grünwald, and Jones, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 439, provided a record for Guanajuato, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 51, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 367–368, 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.
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