Eleutherodactylus furcyensis Shreve and Williams, 1963
Eleutherodactylus furcyensis Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 329. Holotype: MCZ 34307, by original designation. Type locality: "Furcy, [Département de l'Ouest,] Republic of Haiti".
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) furcyensis — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas furcyensis — 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
Furcy Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).
Distribution
Southern Hispaniola in the region of the Massif de la Selle (Haiti) to the western Sierra de Baoruco (Dominican Republic), 120-680 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to the original publication. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 309: 1. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 77. See 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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