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Eleutherodactylus fowleri Schwartz, 1973

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus

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Eleutherodactylus fowleri Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 255. Holotype: USNM 189255, by original designation. Type locality: "1.5 mi. (2.4 km) N Los Arroyos, 4300 ft (1312 m), Pedernales Province, República Dominicana".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) fowleri — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 9.

English Names

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

Distribution

In the Massif de la Selle from the vicinity of the type locality (Dominican Republic) and 4.8 mi. southwest of Seguin, Département de l'Ouest, Haiti.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to the original publication. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1982, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 297: 1. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus montanus series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus lamprotes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 61-62. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 339.

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