''Eleutherodactylus interorbitalis'', also known as the Sinaloa piping frog and spectacled chirping frog, 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 Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Mexico and is known from the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango. It occurs in the foothills of tropical deciduous forest and in open oak woodlands with a rocky, grass understory at elevations of

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 ...

. It tolerates deforestation as long as there are rocky areas available. Development is direct (i.e., there is no free-living larval stage). It can locally suffer from habitat deterioration but is not threatened overall.

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interorbitalis Endemic amphibians of Mexico Fauna of the Sierra Madre Occidental Amphibians described in 1956 Taxa named by Frederick A. Shannon Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Sinaloan dry forests {{Eleutherodactylus-stub