Coquí

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This article is about a group of animals. For the NASA rocket study, see NASA Coqui.

See also the Wikipedia article about the Common Coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui).

Coquí

Common Coquí, Eleutherodactylus coqui

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Amphibia
Subclass:	Lissamphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Leptodactylidae
Subfamily:	Eleutherodactylinae
Genus:	Eleutherodactylus Duméril and Bibron, 1841

Species

See text.

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)^{[citation needed]} the males make at night. The Common Coquí is the unofficial symbol of Puerto Rico.

1 Taxonomy
2 Species described from Puerto Rico
3 See also
4 References

[edit] 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]