A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope

by John D. Lynch

University of Kansas
Lawrence
1970

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors of this number:
Frank B. Cross, Philip S. Humphrey, William E. Duellman
Volume 20, No. 1, pp. 1-45, 22 figs.
Published February 20, 1970
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

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A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog
Genus Syrrhophus Cope

BY

JOHN D. LYNCH

Introduction

Cope (1878) proposed the genus Syrrhophus for a medium-sized leptodactylid frog from central Texas; in the ensuing 75 years the genus was expanded to include a heterogeneous group of frogs ranging from Texas to Peru. Taylor (1952) and Firschein (1954) limited the genus to several species of frogs occurring in Guatemala, México, and Texas. Lynch (1968) provided a definition of the previously loosely-defined genus.