Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus emiliae Dunn, 1926, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 213. Holotype: MCZ 11129, by original designation. Type locality: "Mina Carlota", Cienfuegos Province, Cuba.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) emiliae — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas emiliae — 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

Emilia's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Restricted to the closed-canopy forests of the Macizo de Guamuhaya (Sierra del Escambray and Sierra de Banao), Cuba, 350-850 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2, and Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 338. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) emiliae group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) dimidiatus species series, Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 66-67. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 335. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 74-75, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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