Eleutherodactylus marnockii
(Cope, 1878)
ee-LOO-ther-oh-DAK-til-us — mar-NOK-ee-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Texas
Taxonomic Etymology:
Named after a 19th-century naturalist.
Eleutherodactylus — Greek eleutheros = "free" + dactylos = "finger"
marnockii — Patronym honoring Gabriel Wilson Marnoch (1838–1920), a noted frontier naturalist, collecting specimens of two amphibian and two reptile species from the Helotes Hills where he was postmaster and a founding member of the Scientific Society of San Antonio; Latinized possessive form.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Marnock's Frog (Syrrophus marnocki: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Marnock's Frog (Syrrhophus marnockii: 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.); Cliff Frog (Syrrhophus marnocki: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1878
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Cope, Edward D. A new genus of Cystignathidae from Texas. American Naturalist 12:252–253
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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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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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