Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Tomodactylus fuscus Davis and Dixon, 1955, Herpetologica, 11: 155. Holotype: TCWC 11252, by original designation. Type locality: "1 1/2 miles southeast of Huitzilac, 7800 feet, Morelos, México". Secondary homonym of Eleutherodactylus fuscus Lynn and Dent, 1943.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) maurus Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318. Replacement name for Tomodactylus fuscus Davis and Dixon, 1955, when in Eleutherodactylus; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Syrrhophus fuscus — 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

Brown Peeping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Dusky Chirping Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Southeastern Michoacán to Mexico and Morelos, Mexico.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319, and Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91-92.

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