Eleutherodactylus erendirae Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus erendirae

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) erendirae Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 17. Holotype: MZFC 29274, by original designation. Type locality: "Aparícuaro, Municipio de Tancítaro (19.33798°, -102.26986°; datum WGS 84; elev. 2,045 masl), Michoacán, Mexico". Zoobank publication registration: 3EDC9AB7-94EE-4EAC-89B4-19F5218A593A

English Names

Erendira's Trilling Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 73). 

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Aparícuaro, Municipio de Tancítaro, Michoacán) and the Sierra del Tigre in east-central Jalisco, Mexico, 1800 to 2300 m elevation, in humid pine-oak forest and humid oak woodland.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) nitidus series, Eleutherodactylus modestus species group, according to the original publication, where the diagnostic morphology, call was noted, as well as its range. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) modestus clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics. 

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