Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas, 1966
Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas, 1966, Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 28: 376. Holotype: MCZ 43208, by original designation. Type locality: "11.8 km S Palmer, Area Recreo La Mina, Puerto Rico".
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) coqui — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 9.
English Names
Puerto Rican Coqui (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 81; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Coqui (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 81; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9).
Distribution
Throughout Puerto Rico; introduced on St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 0-1200 m, and Costa Rica; also into South Florida and Hawaii (Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Oahu), USA.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to the original publication, and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 99-115. Introduced populations in Miami and Homestead, Florida, and New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, according to Rivero, 1984, J. Bromeliad Soc., 34: 65, although Dundee in Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9, rejected the Louisiana record. Kaiser, Green, and Schmid, 1994, Canad. J. Zool., 72: 2217-2237, discussed the phylogenetic relationships of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, not assigned to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Hawaiian records by Kraus, Campbell, Allison, and Pratt, 1999, Herpetol. Rev., 30: 21-25. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 189-191, discussed the introduced populations in South Florida, United States Virgin Islands, and Hawaiian Islands. Waddle, Crockett, and Rice, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 487, provided a record for St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Velo-Antón, Burrowes, Joglar, Martínez-Solano, Beard, and Parra-Olea, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 45: 716-728, discussed deep genetic divergence among allopatric populations in Puerto Rico. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus antillensis species group, Eleutherodactylus wightmanae species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59. Beard, Price, and Pitt, 2009, Pacific Sci., 63: 297-316, and Peacock, Beard, O'Neill, Kirchoff, and Peters, 2009, Mol. Ecol., 18: 3603-3615, discussed the introduced populations in Hawaii. Christy, Clark, Gee, Vice, Vice, Warner, Tyrrell, Rodda, and Savidge, 2007, Pacific Sci., 61: 469-483, reported incidental specimens from Guam but did not think that the species was established. García-Rodríguez, Chaves, Wainwright, and Villegas, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 375, provided a record from Costa Rica.
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