Eleutherodactylus griphus Crombie, 1986, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 21: 146. Holotype: USNM 250000, by original designation. Type locality: "Vicinity of the 'the cave,' about 7 mi (11.2 km) WNW Quick Step, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica."
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) griphus — Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147. Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas griphus — 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.
Trelawny Parish Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).
Mesic forests of the Cockpit Country, Trelawny Parish, west-central Jamaica, elevations of 250-640 m.
In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus series, Eleutherodactylus nubicola group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322, and Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147. In the Eleutherodactylus gossei group according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) nubicola group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group, Eleutherodactylus nubicola species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 72. 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: 343.
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