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Eleutherodactylus maurus (Dusky Chirping Frog)

Synonyms: Syrrhophus fuscus; Tomodactylus fuscus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Eleutherodactylus maurus (common names: brown peeping frog, dusky chirping frog; Spanish: rana-fisgona café) is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae. It is endemic to central Mexico and known from the southeastern Michoacán to Mexico, and Morelos states. Its natural habitats are pine forests with abundant rocks and leaf-litter. It is an uncommon and poorly known species that is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Eleutherodactylus maurus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Eleutherodactylus maurus

Attributes

Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.063 inches (2.7 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Bajío dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cobio Chichinautzin Flora and Fauna Protection Area 92175 Mexico  
El Tepozteco National Park II   Morelos, Mexico      
Nevado de Toluca National Park II   México, Mexico  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0