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Eleutherodactylus dilatus (Davis and Dixon, 1955)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus

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Tomodactylus dilatus Davis and Dixon, 1955, Herpetologica, 11: 155. Holotype: TCWC 11245, by original designation. Type locality: "four miles west of Mazatlán, 7400 feet, Guerrero", Mexico.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) dilatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Syrrhophus dilatus — 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.

Syrrhophus dilautus — Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Guerreran Peeping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Chilpancingo region of the Sierra Madre del Sur of central Guerrero, Mexico, pine-oak woodland.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91-92. 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: 333.

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