Eleutherodactylus rubrimaculatus (Taylor and Smith, 1945)
Syrrhophus rubrimaculatus Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 583. Holotype: USNM 114070, by original designation. Type locality: "La Esperanza, [near Escuintla,] Chiapas", Mexico.
Syrrhophus rubrimaculata — Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 48-49.
Eleutherodactylus rubrimaculatus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196. by implication.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) rubrimaculatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Syrrhophus rubrimaculatus — 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
Red-spotted Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Dusky Chirping Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).
Distribution
Low to moderate elevations on the Pacific versant of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico; extending into adjacent southwestern Guatemala.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. See account by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 20-22. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. 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: 375.
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