OCCASIONAL PAPERS LIBRARY JUL 2 6 1990 iv nn of the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas NUMBER 136, PAGES 1-31 27 JUNE 1990 THE FROGS OF THE GENUS ELE UTHER ODA CTYLUS (FAMILY LEPTODACTYLIDAE) AT THE LA PLANADA RESERVE IN SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EIGHT NEW SPECIES John D. Lynch 1 and Patricia A. Burrowes 2 As presently constituted, the genus Eleutherodactylus is the largest genus of vertebrates recognized with more than 430 species distributed from Texas and the Bahamas to Argentina. It becomes even larger if the 25 or so species of the genera Sminthillus, Syrrhophus, and Tomodactylus are included as recommended by Hedges (1989). There are places, in very humid lowland forests, at which one can find 1 5-20 species living more or less sympatrically (Lynch, 1 979, 1 980a) whereas in upland areas one rarely finds more than 6-1 species. The richness of the genus Eleutherodactylus is only partially attrib-utable to its ecological diversification (few studies have demonstrated food or habitat specialization within communities and then only for a few species). 'Research Associate in Herpetology, Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas, and Professor of Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Uni-versity of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-01 18. 2 Graduate Student. Division of Herpetology, Museum of Natural History, Dyche Hall, and Department of Systematics and Ecology, Haworth Hall, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2454. (Present address: CalleBelen 1668,Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00657.)
The frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus (family Leptodactylidae) at the La Planada Reserve in southwestern Colombia with descriptions of eight new species
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