Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus amplinympha Kaiser, Green, and Schmid, 1994, Canad. J. Zool., 72: 2220. Holotype: KU 221259, by original designation. Type locality: "near Freshwater Lake, Dominica, West Indies (ca. 61° 20´ W, 1° 20´ N; elevation ca. 800 m)."

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) amplinympha — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 9.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Dominica, 300-1200 m elevation, West Indies.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group according to the original publication, most closely related to Eleutherodactylus martinicensis. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59-60. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 317. Reviewed by Carter, Kaiser, and Powell, 2010, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 863: 1-4.

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