Diasporus gularis (Boulenger, 1898)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Diasporus > Species: Diasporus gularis

Hylodes gularis Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 121. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.15.82 (formerly 98.4.28.107), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 293. Type locality: "Cachabe [=Cachabí], a small village on the river of that name on the N.W. Coast; in the Prov. Esmeraldas . . . probably about 500 feet above the sea", Ecuador. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 515, discussed this locality and noted that it is not the same as San Javier de Cachabí.

Eleutherodactylus gularisStejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Parker, 1926, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 17: 553.

Hyloxalus huigrae Fowler, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 65: 165. Holotype: ANSP 18113, by original designation. Type locality: "Huigra, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, Ecuador". Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus diastema by Dunn, 1942, Not. Nat., Philadelphia, 104: 2. Placed in synonymy of Eleutherodactylus gularis by Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 61: 14.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) gularisLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225.

Pristimantis gularisHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Diasporus gularisHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47.

English Names

Esmeraldas Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Lowlands of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, sea level to 1150 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus scolodiscus. See account by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 441–442. Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus diastema by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 441-442, where it had been placed by Dunn, 1942, Not. Nat., Philadelphia, 104: 2. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 99-102, who placed it in the Eleutherodactylus diastema group. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. See note by Lynch, 2001, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 25: 292. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group. Transferred to Diasporus by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 47, on the basis of molecular data. Toro-Sánchez and Bernal-Bautista, 2015, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 10: 116–120, reported on the advertisement call. Romero-Martínez, Vidal-Pastrana, Lynch, and Dueñas, 2008, Caldasia, 30: 209–229, discussed the population on Cerro Murrucucú, Córdoba, Colombia. 

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