Eleutherodactylus guttilatus

Eleutherodactylus guttilatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Eleutherodactylidae
Genus: Eleutherodactylus
Subgenus: Syrrhopus
Species: E. guttilatus
Binomial name
Eleutherodactylus guttilatus
(Cope, 1879)
Synonyms

Malachylodes guttilatus Cope, 1879
Syrrhopus guttulatus (Cope, 1879)
Eleutherodactylus smithi (Taylor, 1940)
Eleutherodactylus petrophilus (Firschein, 1954)

The spotted chirping frog or Mexican cliff frog, Eleutherodactylus guttilatus, is a species of small Eleutherodactylid frog native to the southern United States and Mexico.[2] They are found in moderate elevation ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, from the Davis Mountains in west Texas south to the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Durango and Guanajuato. They grow from 0.75 to 1.25 inches in length, and are easily mistaken for other Eleutherodactylus species, with which they share range. This has led to some confusion in its taxonomic classification.

References

  1. Georgina Santos-Barrera, Luis Canseco-Márquez, Geoffrey Hammerson (2010). "Eleutherodactylus guttilatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Eleutherodactylus guttilatus (Cope, 1879)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

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