Eleutherodactylus leprus (Cope, 1879)
Syrrhophus leprus Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 268. Holotype: USNM 10040, by original designation and according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 128. Type locality: "Santa Efigenia", Oaxaca, Mexico.
Syrrhopus leprus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.
Syrrhaphus leprus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 217.
Eleutherodactylus leprus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198. by implication.
Syrrhophus leprus leprus — Neill, 1965, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 9: 85-86.
Syrrhophus leprus cholorum Neill, 1965, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 9: 85-86. Holotype: W.T. Neill 1525, by original designation; now in FSM. Type locality: "3.9 miles north of San Antonio, Toledo District, British Honduras [= Belize]". Distinctiveness of subspecies rejected by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 20.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus — 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 (Syrrhophus) cholorum — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Unintended combination.
Syrrhophus leprus — Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 67.
English Names
Leprus Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 62; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 67; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).
Mottled Chirping Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 65).
Distribution
Low elevations on Atlantic slopes from central Veracruz (Mexico) and Pacific slopes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastward to northern Guatemala and southwestern Belize.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series, Eleutherodactylus leprus group, 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: 227. See accounts by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 18-20, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 62-63, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 65-66, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 67-69. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus leprus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 89. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 354.
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