Eleutherodactylus cuneatus (Cope, 1862)
Hylodes cuneatus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 152. Syntypes: USNM 5202 (2 specimens), by original designation and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 61. Type locality: "Eastern Cuba"; restricted to "inmediaciones de Monte Verde, Meseta del Guaso, ca. 27 km al NE de la ciudad de Guantánamo, provincia de Guantánamo, Cuba" by Estrada and Hedges, 1998, Caribb. J. Sci., 34: 218-230.
Hylodes (Lithodytes) cuneatus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.
Eleutherodactylus cuneatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 244.
Eleutherodactylus sierra-maestrae Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 3. Holotype: AMNH 6450, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Maestra Range, in the Province of Oriente, Cuba". [Note that Oriente Province has been partitioned.] Synonymy by Estrada and Hedges, 1998, Caribb. J. Sci., 34: 218-230.
Eleutherodactylus brevipalmatus Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 4. Holotype: AMNH 6448, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Maestra Range, Province of Oriente [now partitioned], Cuba". Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus sierramaestrae by Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 18.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cuneatus — 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) sierramaestrae — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325.
Euhyas cuneata — 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
Juventud Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus cuneatus: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Sierra Maestra Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus sierramaestrae [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).
Distribution
Mountains of southeastern Cuba, from sea level to 1970 m elevation
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 16, and Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 18. 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: 232. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus cuneatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 68-69. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 104-105, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
