Eleutherodactylus darlingtoni Cochran, 1935
Eleutherodactylus darlingtoni Cochran, 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 368. Holotype: MCZ 19847, by original designation. Type locality: "near La Visite, La Selle Range, [Département l'Ouest,] Haiti".
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) darlingtoni — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas darlingtoni — 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
Darlington's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Distribution
Hispaniola; Massif de la Selle in Haiti, known from the type locality and the ridge of the La Selle on the road to Saltrou, presumably distributed in the Massif de la Selle; to be expected in the Dominican Republic between Los Arroyos and El Aguacate, 1720-2200 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 328, and Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 271-272. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1982, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 284: 1. Hedges, 1992, Caribb. J. Sci., 28: 11-16, considered this to be the allopatric sister species of Eleutherodactylus leoncei. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) armstrong species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 66. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 331.
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