Description: Spotted Chirping Frogs (Eleutherodactylus guttilatus), otherwise known as Mexican Cliff Frogs, have brown or rust-colored skin with mottling across their backs. They grow to 1.25 inches.

Habitat: Spotted chirping frogs are found in a variety of habitats in the Chichuhuan Biotic Provinc. In the mountains, they inhabit rocky outcrops in ravines, along bluffs, and manmade rock walls in the oak-juniper woodland. At lower elevations they have been found in mines, along road cuts, and along limestone bluffs on the Rio Grande. Spotted chirping frogs are nocturnal, and may be found by day under rocks, leaf litter, and debris

Range: They are found in moderate elevation ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, from the Davis Mountains in west Texas south to the Mexican states.

Found in these States: TX

Diet: It is suspected that spotted chirping frogs feed on other small insects and invertebrates, including spiders and small crustaceans

Reproduction: This highly terrestrial frog does not undertake breeding migrations or form breeding aggregations. Similar to cliff chirping frogs (E. marnockii), they probably maintain a home range. Development in spotted chirping frogs occurs within the egg; young hatch as froglets

Status: Spotted chirping frogs have no federal or state conservation status. They are common and relatively abundant in several areas of Big Bend National Park. There is little large-scale development in the Park and in those places where there is (e.g., the Basin), spotted chirping frogs are still found. Due to the remote nature of much of the spotted chirping frogs' native habitat, they are most likely under no immediate population threats.

Subspecies: None

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