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Eleutherodactylus pipilans (Taylor, 1940)

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

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Syrrhophus pipilans Taylor, 1940, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 53: 95. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6843, by original designation; now FMNH 100072 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 66. Type locality: "9 mi. south of Mazatlán, Guerrero, México (km. 337)".

Syrrhophus nebulosus Taylor, 1943, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 29: 351. Holotype: EHT-HMS 3774, by original designation; now FMNH 100095 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 66. Type locality: "near Tonalá, Chiapas". Synonymy by Duellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 9.

Syrrhophus pipilans pipilans — Duellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 9.

Syrrhophus pipilans nebulosus — Duellman, 1958, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 594: 9.

Eleutherodactylus pipilans — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196. by implication.

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

Syrrhophus pipilans — 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

Whistling Chirping Frog (Syrrhophus pipilans: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Nebulous Chirping Frog (Syrrhophus pilans nebulosus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Whistling Chirping Frog (Syrrhophus pilans pipilans: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Distribution

South-central Guerrero to southern Oaxaca (Mexico); southern Chiapas, Mexico, to southwestern Guatemala. Reported in the state of Mexico by <<~5279~, ~Casas-Andreu, Aguilar-Miguel, and Pineda-Arredeondo~, ~1997~, ~in Aguilar-Miguel et al. (eds.), Lista Taxon. Vert. Terr. Estado Mexico~, ~~>>: 22.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) pipilans group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) pipilans group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, in the monotypic Eleutherodactylus pipilans species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93.

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