Eleutherodactylus nivicolimae (Dixon and Webb, 1966)
Syrrhophus nivicolimae Dixon and Webb, 1966, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 102: 1. Holotype: LACM 3200, by original designation. Type locality: "Nevado de Colima, six miles (airline) west of Atenquique, Jalisco, 7800 feet", Mexico.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nivicolimae — 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) nivocolimae — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name.
Syrrhophus nivicolimae — 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
Nevado de Colima Chirping Frog (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: 25).
Distribution
Eastern Colima and southwestern Jalisco on the slopes of the Nevado de Colima at moderate to high elevations (600-2400 m), Mexico.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. See account by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 38-40. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 360. Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-López, Grünwald, and Avila-López, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 117-120, provided a record in Colima, Mexico.
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