Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Liuperus nitidus Peters, 1870 "1869", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869: 878-879. Holotype: ZMB 6669 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 121. Type locality: "wareren Gegenden Mexicos (Matamoros u.a.o.)" = warmer parts of Mexico (Matamoros and other areas); rendered as "State of Puebla, Mexico, possibly from the vicinity of Matamoros" by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 121; probably near Matamoros [Puebla, Mexico] according to Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 49.

Leiuperus nitidus — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 23.

Paludicola nitida — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 237.

Tomodactylus amulae Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 219. Syntypes: BMNH 1901.12.19.9-12 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 121. Type locality: "Mexico, Amula in Guerrero". Synonymy by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 121; Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 385.

Tomodactylus nitidus — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 451. Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 120-123.

Tomodactylus petersi Duellman, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 560: 5. Holotype: UMMZ 109238, by original designation. Type locality: "one-fourth mile east of Coalcomán (elevation 3500 feet)", Michoacán, Mexico. Synonymy by Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 390.

Tomodactylus nitidus nitidus — Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 385.

Tomodactylus nitidus petersi — Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 390.

Tomodactylus nitidus orarius Dixon, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 392. Holotype: UMMZ 116922, by original designation. Type locality: "4.5 mi. southwest of Tecolapa, 450 feet, Colima, México".

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus — 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) nitidus orarius — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. By implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) orarius — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. Unintended combination.

Syrrhophus nitidus — 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

Shiny Peeping Frog (Syrrhophus nitidus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Shiny Peeping Frog (Syrrhophus nitidus nitidus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Colima Shiny Peeping Frog (Syrrhophus nitidus orarius: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Peters' Shiny Peeping Frog (Syrrhophus nitidus petersi: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Distribution

Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Durango and adjacent Sinaloa southward and eastwards through the Cordillera Volcanica to Hidalgo and south into the Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero and Oaxaca; also on the Pacific lowlands in Nayarit, Colima, and Michoacan; reported in Hidaldo, Mexico.

Comment

Subspecies not recognized by Lynch, 1991, Copeia, 1991: 1138-1139. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-López, Reynoso-Rosales, Estrada-Hernandez, and Rodriguez-Blanco, 2001, Anal. Inst. Biol., Univ. Nac. Aut. Mexico, Ser. Zool., 72: 233-243, provided the record from Guanajuato (Sierra Santa Rosa). In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91-92. McCranie and Wilson, 1984, Herpetol. Rev., 15: 22, provided a record for Aguascalientes, Mexico. López-Mejia and Goyenechea, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, provided a record for Hidalgo, Mexico, and commented on the range.

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