''Eleutherodactylus angustidigitorum'' is a species of
frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-f ...
in the family
Eleutherodactylidae
The Eleutherodactylidae are a family of direct-developing frogs native to northern South America, the Caribbean, and southernmost North America. They are sometimes known under the common name rain frogs. Formerly the subfamily Eleutherodactylina ...
. It is
endemic
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to Mexico and is known from
Michoacán
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and southern
Jalisco
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(
Tuxpan
Tuxpan (or Túxpam, fully Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano) is both a municipality and city located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The population of the city was 78,523 and of the municipality was 134,394 inhabitants, according to the INEGI census o ...
).
[ Common names Patzcuaro peeping frog and Patzcuaro stream frog have been coined for it.][
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Description
''Eleutherodactylus angustidigitorum'' are small frogs with a maximum size of about snout–vent length
Snout–vent length (SVL) is a morphometric measurement taken in herpetology from the tip of the snout to the most posterior opening of the cloacal slit (vent)."direct line distance from tip of snout to posterior margin of vent" It is the most c ...
. The head is slightly narrower than the body and the snout is pointed. The canthus rostralis In snakes and amphibians, the canthus, canthal ridge or ''canthus rostralis'',Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. ''The Dangerous Snakes of Africa''. Ralph Curtis Books. Dubai: Oriental Press. 192 pp. . is the angle between the flat crown of the head and the ...
is distinct while the tympanum is small and indistinct. The digits have tapering tips; no webbing is present. Skin is smooth above apart from a few flattened and relatively indistinct pustules; the flanks and the venter are covered by large granules. Dorsal coloration is variable and may be nearly uniformly gray-black, reddish-brown with indistinct darker flecks and spots, deep brown, or brownish-gray with black spots.
Habitat and conservation
''Eleutherodactylus angustidigitorum'' occurs in pine-oak forests at elevations of about above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''.
The comb ...
;habitat loss
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caused by logging and infrastructure development. It might occur in the Pico de Tancítaro National Park.
References
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angustidigitorum
Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Fauna of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor
Amphibians described in 1940
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot