COQUí

:''This article is about the animal. For the NASA rocket study, see NASA Coqui.''
'Coquí' is the common name for several species of small frogs endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, onomatopoeically named for the loud sound (sometimes reaching as high as 100 dB) the males make at night. This animal is the unofficial symbol of the island of Puerto Rico.

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Taxonomy

Species described from Puerto Rico

See also

References

Taxonomy

Coquís belong to the '''Eleutherodactylus''' genus which in Greek means free toes. The ''Eleutherodactylus'' genus contains over 700 different frog species which occur in southern United States, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
There are 17 described species of coquís in Puerto Rico. In 2007 a new species, the ''Coquí Llanero'', was officially named ''Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi''.^[1]

Species described from Puerto Rico

★ ''Eleutherodactylus antillensis''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus brittoni''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus cochranae''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus cooki''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus coqui''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus eneidae''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus gryllus''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus hedricki''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus jasperi''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus locustus''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus monensis''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus portoricensis''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus richmondi''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus unicolor''

★ ''Eleutherodactylus wightmanae''

See also

★ Fauna of Puerto Rico

References

1. Rios-López, N. and R. Thomas. 2007. A new species of palustrine Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Puerto Rico. Zootaxa 1512: 51–64


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