Eupsophus migueli

Correa, Claudio & Duran, Felipe, 2019, Taxonomy, systematics and geographic distribution of ground frogs (Alsodidae, Eupsophus): a comprehensive synthesis of the last six decades of research, ZooKeys 863, pp. 107-152 : 126-127

Eupsophus migueli Fig. 3B

Type locality.

Mehuín ( Formas 1978a); locality 58 of Fig. 3B .

Geographic distribution.

Another of the six species of the roseus group endemic to Chile, restricted to a narrow coastal strip between 39°23' and 39°51'S ( Fig. 3B ). Eupsophus migueli was described from two coastal localities in Chile, Mehuín and Los Molinos (39°25' to 39°51'S; Formas 1978a), but later its distribution was expanded eastward to a few nearby localities, like San José de la Mariquina ( Méndez et al. 2005) and Colegual Alto ( Nuñez et al. 2012a) ( Fig. 3B ). Cumulative literature records imply the sympatry of E. migueli and E. roseus at Mehuín, Queule and Los Molinos (Appendix 1 and Fig. 3B ). Available maps restrict its distribution to its type locality and surroundings ( Nuñez 2003, Rabanal and Nuñez 2008), ignoring the other locality of the original description, Los Molinos. The map of IUCN (2019), by including the entire range of E. altor , extends the distribution of E. migueli further south, but it does not include Los Molinos either. To the north, this map surpasses the northernmost record of the species by about 20 km, but does not include the locality of San José de la Mariquina, which extends its distribution significantly to the east (compare with the map of Correa et al. 2017). Moreover, the map of E. roseus of the IUCN (2019) implies that both species are completely sympatric across the entire distribution range of E. migueli .

Figures

Figure 3. Compilation of localities of Eupsophus species gathered from the literature (see the complete list of localities in Appendix 1). Multicolored circles and the star indicate localities where two or three species of the same group have been reported in the same or different sources. White circles indicate the localities where two undescribed species have been identified (Villarrica and Tolhuaca), two undetermined populations included in this study (Fig. 4) and several ones considered by Correa et al. (2017) as E. roseus, whose taxonomic status is uncertain according to the current taxonomy (Suarez-Villota et al. 2018 b). Thin gray lines within Chile represent boundaries of Administrative Regions.