Diasporus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
Diasporus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47. Type species: Lithodytes diastema Cope, 1875 "1876", by original designation.
English Names
Dink Frogs (Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Mora, and Leal, 2009, Zootaxa, 2088: 1).
Distribution
Extreme eastern Honduras south along the Atlantic coastal plain of Nicaragua to Costa Rica (on both coasts) thence east to the western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.
Comment
All members of this taxon were former members of the Eleutherodactylus diastema group. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the sister-taxon relationship of Diasporus and Eleutherodactylus. Hertz, Hauenschild, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2012, ZooKeys, 196: 23-46, provided an identification key to the species of Central America as well as a preliminary phylogenetic tree.
Contained taxa
- Diasporus anthrax (Lynch, 2001)
- Diasporus citrinobapheus Hertz, Hauenschild, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2012
- Diasporus diastema (Cope, 1875)
- Diasporus gularis (Boulenger, 1898)
- Diasporus hylaeformis (Cope, 1875)
- Diasporus igneus Batista, Ponce, and Hertz, 2012
- Diasporus quidditus (Lynch, 2001)
- Diasporus tigrillo (Savage, 1997)
- Diasporus tinker (Lynch, 2001)
- Diasporus ventrimaculatus Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Mora, and Leal, 2009
- Diasporus vocator (Taylor, 1955)
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