Eleutherodactylus guttilatus (Cope, 1879)
Malachylodes guttilatus Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 264. Holotype: USNM 9888 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 66. Type locality: "Guanajuato", Mexico".
Syrrhopus guttulatus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name.
Syrrhaphus guttulatus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 217. Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Encuent. Rep. Mex.: 11. Incorrect subsequent spelling of generic name.
Syrrhophus guttilatus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 399-400. Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 51.
Syrrhophus smithi Taylor, 1940, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 89: 43. Holotype: USNM 108594, by original designation. Type locality: "15 miles west of Galeana, Nuevo León, Mexico; elevation 5,200 feet". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 22.
Syrrhophus gaigeae Schmidt and Smith, 1944, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 29: 80. Holotype: FMNH 27361, by original designation. Type locality: "the Basin, Chisos Mountains, Brewster County., Texas", USA. Synonymy with Syrrhophus marnocki by Milstead, Mecham, and McClintock, 1950, Texas J. Sci., 2: 543-562. Synonymy with Syrrhophus guttilatus by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 22-23. Synonymy with Syrrhophus marnocki continued by Morafka, 1977, Biogeographica, Hague, 9: 69.
Syrrhophus petrophilus Firschein, 1954, Copeia, 1954: 50. Holotype: UIMNH 7807, by original designation. Type locality: "mountains (Sierra San Miguelito) 3 miles southwest of San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí", Mexico. Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 22-23. Considered a replacement name for Syrrhophus gaigeae Schmidt and Smith, 1944, by Lynch, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 279.
Eleutherodactylus smithi — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus petrophilus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus guttilatus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) guttilatus — 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 guttilatus — 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
Mexican Cliff Frog (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 304).
Spotted Chirping Frog (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: 75; 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).
Distribution
Moderate to intermediate elevations (600-2000 m) along the Sierra Madre Oriental from the Davis Mountain region of West Texas (USA) south through Coahuila, Nuevo León, and San Luis Potosí to central Durango and Guanajuato (Mexico).
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnockii group, Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnocki group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. Considered a synonym of Syrrhophus marnocki by Milstead, Mecham, and McClintock, 1950, Texas J. Sci., 2: 543-562, and Morafka, 1977, Biogeographica, Hague, 9: 69; this synonymy has not been generally accepted, although no one has disputed Morafka's contention of having collected intermediate specimens in the Sierra de Agava east of Monclova, Nuevo León, Mexico. Bryson and Mueller, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 229, reported the species for the Davis Mountains, Texas, USA. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus guttilatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91.
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