Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phyllobates verruculatus Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 650. Holotype: ZMB 6957 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 129. Type locality: "Huanusco [= ? Huatusco, Veracruz,] (Mexico)"; corrected to probably Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 52.

Hypodictyon verruculatus — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383.

Syrrhopus verruculatus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.

Syrrhaphus verruculatus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 215. Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Mex.: 9.

Syrrhophus verruculatus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 399.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) verruculatus — 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 verruculatus — 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

Least Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico).

Comment

Considered a nomen dubium by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 1-45. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318-319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, tentatively in the Eleutherodactylus guttilatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91 (who also discussed the problematic nature of this taxon).

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