Eleutherodactylus wixarika Reyes-Velasco, Ahumada-Carrillo, Burkhardt, and Devitt, 2015

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

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) wixarika Reyes-Velasco, Ahumada-Carrillo, Burkhardt, and Devitt, 2015, Zootaxa, 3914: 309. Holotype: MZFZ 27477, by original designation. Type locality: "Bajío de los Amoles, Municipality of Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico (22.059429, -103.933983, 2,467 m; datum = WGS84". Zoobank publication registration: C83CDA14-8528-4E15-B5A5-ECE88621196B

English Names

Sierra Huichol Peeping Frog (Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 74). 

Distribution

Sierra Huichol (at 2400 to 2500 m elevation) in the municipality of Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico, although likely at high elevations throughout this mountain range and possibly also in other nearby mountain ranges in Jalisco, Zacatecas, Nayarit, and Durango, in pine forest. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Comparative morphology and advertisement call described in the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series, Eleutherodactylus modestus group, and most closely related to Eleutherodactylus teretistes according to Grünwald, Reyes-Velasco, Franz-Chávez, Morales-Flores, Ahumada-Carrillo, Jones, and Boissinot, 2018, Mesoam. Herpetol., 5: 8–83, discussed the range, comparative morphology, and molecular phylogenetics of this species. 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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