Eleutherodactylus campi
Stejneger, 1915
ee-LOO-ther-oh-DAK-til-us — CAMP-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides by Grünwald, et al. (2018, Mesoamerican Herpetology, 5: 66), although this has not been universally accepted (e.g., Dodd, 2023, Frogs of the United States and Canada, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press: 992pp).
(Mendelson, Joseph R., III, Darrel R. Frost, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, and Maureen A. Donnelly. 2025. Anura – Frogs. Pages 1-9 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named in honor of an amateur naturalist.
Eleutherodactylus — Greek eleutheros = "free" + dactylos = "finger"; “Free-toed,” referring to the absence of webbing between the toes.
campi — Patronym honoring Robert Denham Camp (1867–1929), who served as secretary of the American Ornithologists’ Union and was an amateur naturalist that collected specimens—including the type of this frog—for early 20th-century herpetological researchers.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Camp's Frog (Syrrhophus campi: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1877
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Cope, Edward D. Tenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:85–98
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1915
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Stejneger, Leonard. A new species of tailless batrachian from North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28:131–132
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2005
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Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
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2013
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Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
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2018
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Grünwald, Christoph I., JaCobo Reyes-Velasco, Hector Franz-Chávez, Karen I. Morales-Flores, Iván T. Ahumada-Carrillo, Jason M. Jones, and Stephane Boissinot. Six new species of Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae: subgenus Syrrhophus) from Mexico, with a discussion of their systematic relationships and the validity of related species. Mesoamerican Herpetology 5(1):7-83
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2023
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Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.
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