Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Tomodactylus saxatilis Webb, 1962, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 177. Holotype: KU 63326, by original designation. Type locality: "eight miles west of El Palmito, Sinaloa, approximately 6100 feet", Mexico.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) saxatilis — 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.

Syrrhophus saxatilis — 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

Marbled Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Marbled Peeping Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Distribution

Mixed boreal-tropical habitat in mountains of southern Sinaloa and adjacent Durango, Mexico, ca. 1830 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91-92. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 378.

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