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Cliff Chirping Frog
Eleutherodactylus marnockii (Cope, 1878)
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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.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1878 Cope, Edward D. A new genus of Cystignathidae from Texas. American Naturalist 12:252–253
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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