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Eleutherodactylus gundlachi Schmidt, 1920

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

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Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 244. Holotye: MCZ 3056, by original designation. Type locality: "La Union, Monte Líbano, Guantánamo [Province], eastern Cuba". Preoccupied by Hylodes plicatus Günther, 1900 (= Eleutherodactylus rhodopis [Cope, 1866]).

Eleutherodactylus gundlachi Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 3. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914.

Hylodes barbouri Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 416. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) gundlachi — 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 gundlachi — 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

Gundlach's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Southeastern Cuba; uplands of the Sierra Maestra, Sierra del Cobre, Sierra de la Gran Piedra, east to the mountains north of Imías, 200-1970 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. 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: 225. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 344. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 65-66, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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