Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides (Cope, 1877)
Phyllobates cystignathoides Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 89. Syntypes: USNM 32402-04, 32406-09 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69), MCZ 25732 (according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170l; formerly USNM 32405). Type locality: "Potrero near Cordova [=Córdoba], Vera Cruz under decayed trunks of trees", Mexico.
Syrrhophus cystignathoides — Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 268.
Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.
Syrrhaphus cystignathoides — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 218.
Syrraphus cystignathoides — Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Encuent. Rep. Mex.: 10.
Syrrhophus campi Stejneger, 1915, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 28: 131. Holotype: USNM 52290 by original designation. Type locality: "Brownsville, [Cameron County,] Texas", USA. Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 15.
Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170.
Eleutherodactylus campi — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Syrrhophus cystignathoides campi — Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 15.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) cystignathoides — 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.
Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides campi — Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19.
Syrrhophus cystignathoides — 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
Rio Grande Chirping Frog (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 304; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 5; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14).
Camp's Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides campi: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: addendum; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: xi; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 60; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 177; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14).
Mexican Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides cystignathoides: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).
Rio Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides campi: Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 5; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7).
Distribution
Low to moderate elevations from the Rio Grande embayment (Texas, USA) to central Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, eastern San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and central Veracruz (Mexico). Commensal in much of residential Southeast Texas north to the Dallas area.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrophus) leprus group, the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. McCoid, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 332, provided a record (presumably introduced) between Houston and Galveston. Hibbitts and Saenz, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 350, provided a record for Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA, and discussed the expansion of this species as a commensal in East Texas. Cotten and Fitzgerald, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 476, provided a record for San Jacinto County, southeastern Texas, USA. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus leprus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 89. Franklin and Catalán, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 107, provided a record from Dallas County, Texas, USA. López-Mejia and Goyenechea, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, provided a record for the Municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, Mexico, and discussed the Hidalgan range. Williams and Manuel, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 439, provided a record of a presumed introduced population in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, USA. Jackson and Dixon, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 439, provided a record for Bastrop County, Texas, that the authors suggested was evidence of the natural range moving northward.
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