Notas de distribución
Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae)
Víctor Vásquez-Cruz1
*
Alfonso Kelly-Hernández1
Javier A. Ortiz-Medina2
3
4
Ma. Del Carmen G. Mendoza-Portilla3
5
André J. Grünwald3
Christoph I. Grünwald3
6
7
Iván T. Ahumada-Carrillo3
1 PIMVS Herpetario Palancoatl, Avenida 19 número 5525, Colonia Nueva Esperanza, C.P. 94540, Córdoba, Veracruz, México.
2 Departamento de Sistemática y Ecología Acuática, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
3 Herp.mx A.C., Villa de Álvarez, Colima, Mexico.
4 Unidad de Manejo para la Conservación de la Vida Silvestre Tsáab Kaan, Baca, Yucatán, Mexico.
5 Laboratorio de Biología, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Campus Irapuato, Irapuato-Silao km 12.5 El Copal, C.P. 36821, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
6 Biencom Real Estate, Carretera Chapala - Jocotepec #57-1, C.P. 45920, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico.
7 Biodiversa A.C., Avenida de la Ribera #203,C.P. 45900, Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico.
Mexico. Veracruz. Municipality of San Andrés Tuxtla: Hotel La Escondida
(18.44824°N, 95.21014°W; WGS 84; 295 m elev.). 27 February 2022. C. I. G. and I. T. A.C.
Verified by Luis Canseco-Márquez. A photo voucher of the individual was deposited in The
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM PC 2901; Fig.1). First record for the municipality, which extends the known
distribution of this invasive species approximately 70 km (airline) to the SE from the
closest reported locality at Municipality of Alvarado (UTADC 9407; García-Vinalay et al., 2020; Fig.
2), and it also fills a gap in the known distribution of approximately 146.5
km between the Alvarado locality and localities in the Municipio de Minatitlán, and the
Municipio de Cosoleacaque (CARIE-1281; García-Vinalay et
al., 2020). The frog was found at 1200 h while we were moving a mound of
rocks on the hotel grounds. It is worth mentioning that additional citizen observations
of this species exist near Lake Catemaco on the iNaturalist platform (https://www.inaturalist.org; observations/109201820;
observations/105379580), thus the species may be more widely distributed in the
"Los Tuxtlas" region.
Acknowledgements
We thank Neftalí Camacho for cataloguing digital photographs and Luis Canseco-Márquez for verifying the taxonomic identity of the species. To two anonymous reviewers for their comments.
Cited literature
García-Vinalay, A., A. Fuentes-Moreno, V. Vásquez-Cruz & J.L. Aguilar-López. 2020. Nuevos registros de la rana de invernadero Eleutherodactylus planirostris en Veracruz, México. Caldasia 42:343-346
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