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Spotted Chirping Frog
Eleutherodactylus guttilatus (Cope, 1879)
ee-LOO-ther-oh-DAK-til-us — goo-til-AY-tus

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Texas

Taxonomic Etymology:
The name referring to markings.
Eleutherodactylus — Greek eleutheros = "free" + dactylos = "finger"
guttilatus — Latin guttatus = "spotted" + suffix -latus; possibly intended as a variant of guttulatus, meaning "finely spotted" or "dotted"

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1879 Cope, Edward D. Eleventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 18:261–277
1977 Morafka, David J. A biogeographical analysis of the Chihuahuan Desert through its herpetofauna. Biogeographica. Hague 9. Dr. W. Junk bv, The Hague, Netherlands. 313pp.
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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