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Eleutherodactylus interorbitalis (Langebartel and Shannon, 1956)

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

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Syrrhopus interorbitalis Langebartel and Shannon, 1956, Herpetologica, 12: 161. Holotype: UIMNH 67061 (formerly F.A. Shannon 9378), by original designation. Type locality: "rocky stream bed 36 miles north of Mazatlán (center of city), Sinaloa", Mexico.

Syrrhophus interorbitalis — Duellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 10.

Syrrhophis interorbitalis — Campbell and Simmons, 1962, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 61: 193-203. Misspelling of generic name.

Eleutherodactylus interorbitalis — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) interorbitalis — 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 interorbitalis — 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

Spectacled Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Oak woodland to tropical dry forest from eastern Sonora south to throughout Sinaloa and likely into adjacent Nayarit, Mexico.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series, Eleutherodactylus modestus group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. Enderson and Bezy, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 216, provided the first record for Sonora and an extension up from tropical deciduous forest into pine-oak woodland. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91.

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