PrefaceIn 1928 Thomas Barbour lamented It seems wicked and sinful in this day and generation to
describe new species of Eleutherodactylus and ist ally Syrrhophus. After all Eleutherodactylu
and ist allies amounted to 126 species in Nieden´s checklist published in 1923. By 1963 the
number of species had grown to 320 (Gorham 1966) and to 523 in 1992 (Duellman 1993). Now more
than 800 species are recognized (Hedges et al. 2008a) who provided the first modern
comprehensive phylogeny and classification of this group of frogs that they termed Terrarana.
All Peruvian Terrarana are members oft the family of Strabomantidae....
