A new species of direct-developing frog of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae) from Tamaulipas, Mexico Author Hernández-Austria, Raquel Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 70 - 153, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, México. & Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 70 - 153, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, México. Author García-Castillo, Mirna G. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, Ciudad de México, México. Author Parra-Olea, Gabriela Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 70 - 153, 04510, Ciudad de Mexico, México. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-06-20 5471 4 433 450 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.3 journal article 298743 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.3 7ffa6c79-8784-4c3f-b7b8-1e562dd9f607 1175-5326 12190343 7CD97873-F527-4EE5-98C4-0297B17A26EC

TABLE 3. Comparative morphological characters of the Eleutherodactylus longipes species clade. Morphological information was obtained by examining type specimens (E. potosiensis) or photographs of type specimens of all species (except for E. marnockii).

Species	E. campi	E. coelum	E. cystignathoides	E. dennisi	E. guttilatus	E. leprus	E. longipes	E. marnockii	E. potosiensis	E. verrucipes
		sp. nov.
Size	Small	Small	Small	Medium	Medium	Medium	Large	Medium	Small	Medium
SVL adult	16.3–23.5	13.51–19.88	15.97–21.18	22.8–28.4	20.6–29.0	20.0–26.5	22.1–33.2	18.4–28.9	21.23–23.16	17.5–26.1
males (range)
in mm
Condition of	Usually	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present or	Absent	Present	Present or
interorbital bar	absent						triangle			not
							present
Tips of Finger	Expanded	Expanded	Expanded and	Greatly	Slightly	Slightly	Greatly	Expanded	Expanded	Slightly
III and IV	and	and	truncated	expanded and	expanded	expanded,	expanded	and truncated		expanded
	truncated	truncated		truncated		truncated	and
							truncated
Subarticular	Rounded	Conical	Rounded	Conical and	Conical	Conical	Rounded	Conical	Slightly	Conical
tubercles				rounded					conical
Dorsal skin	Coarsely	Granular	Weakly granular	Shagreened to	Smooth to	Pustular	Pustular	Smooth	Granular	Pustular
texture	granular			granular	moderately			to weakly
					pustular			pustular
Ventral skin	Smooth	Smooth	Areolate	Weakly to	Areolate	Smooth	Smooth	Smooth	Smooth	Areolate
texture				moderately
				areolate
Presence or	Absent	Absent	Absent	Present or not	Present	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Present
absence of
lumbo-inguinal
gland