Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus atkinsi Dunn, 1925, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 165. Holotype: MCZ 10587, by original designation. Type locality: "Colonia Guabairo, near Cienfuegos, [Cienfuegos Province,] Cuba". Rendered as "Near Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba" by Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 256.

Eleutherodactylus atkinsi orientalis Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 392. Holotype: MCZ 22158, by original designation. Type locality: "Upper Ovando River, 1000-1200 feet, Oriente [Province; now Guantánamo Province], Cuba".

Eleutherodactylus atkinsi atkinsi — Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 392.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) atkinsi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) atkinsi estradai — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. By implication.

Eleutherodactylus atkinsi estradai Lynch, 1991, Copeia, 1991: 1138. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus atkinsi orientalis Barbour and Shreve, 1937, which is a preoccupied secondary homonym of Sminthillus limbatus orientalis Barbour and Shreve, 1937 (= Eleutherodactylus orientalis).

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) estradai — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Unintended combination.

Euhyas atkinsi — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 361.

English Names

Atkins' Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Distribution

Widespread in Cuba and the Isla de Juventud (Isla de Pinos), sea leve to 1212 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2; two subspecies recognized. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. See Eleutherodactylus estradai. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, monotypic Eleutherodactylus atkinsi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 78. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 82-83, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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