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Eleutherodactylus verruculatus (Peters, 1870)
Phyllobates verruculatus Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 650. Holotype: ZMB 6957 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 129. Type locality: "Huanusco [= ? Huatusco, Veracruz,] (Mexico)"; corrected to probably Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 52.
Hypodictyon verruculatus — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383.
Syrrhopus verruculatus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.
Syrrhaphus verruculatus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 215; Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Encuent. Rep. Mex..: 9.
Syrrhophus verruculatus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 399.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) verruculatus — 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 verruculatus — 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
Least Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).
Distribution
Known only from the presumed type locality (likely Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
Considered a nomen dubium by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 1-45. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, tentatively in the Eleutherodactylus guttilatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91 (who also discussed the problematic nature of this taxon), and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Rodriguez, and Jones, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15(e272): 2, noted this nominal taxon as "an enigmatic name with no known locality, genetic material, or recently collected specimens available."
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