Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914
Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 249. Syntypes: MCZ 2759 (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "St. Georges, [St. George Parish,] Grenada".
Hylodes johnstonei — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 421.
Hyla barbudensis Auffenberg, 1958, Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 21: 251. Holotype: FSM 2752 (fossil ilium), by original designation. Type locality: "Cave I, Two Foot Bay, Barbuda, British Leeward Islands". Synonymy by Schwartz, 1967, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 24: 18-20.
Eleutherodactylus barbudensis — Lynch, 1966, Copeia, 1966: 525.
Eleutherodactylus johnstonii — Sutherland and Nunnemacher, 1981, J. Comp. Neurol., 202: 415-420. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) johnstonei — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 9.
Eleutherodactylus johnstoni — Gorzula, 1989, Herpetol. Rev., 20: 56. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Johnstone's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).
Distribution
Lesser Antilles; likely originally from St. Lucia or the Antigua and Barbuda Bank, but also known from the islands of St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Nevis, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Martinique, Bequia, Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Mustique, Canouan, an Carriacou; definitely introduced on Trinidad, Jamaica, Bermuda, Dominica, Venezuela, Panama, Barranquilla and Tolima (Colombia), San José (Costa Rica), Curaçao, and Georgetown, Guyana, and coastal French Guiana; likely on coastal Surinam.
Comment
Both prior to and subsequent to the description of Eleutherodactylus johnstonei, the name Eleutherodactylus martinicensis Tschudi has been applied to the populations of frogs now called Eleutherodactylus johnstonei. Schwartz, 1967, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 24: 18-20, discussed the nomenclatural history of this species and noted that the fossil species Hyla barbudensis Auffenberg, 1958, is a synonym of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. See also account by Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 65. See account by Kaiser and Hardy, 1994, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 581: 1-5. Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 81-82, provided an account for Trinidad. Kaiser, Green, and Schmid, 1994, Canad. J. Zool., 72: 2217-2237, discussed the phylogenetic relationships of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 210-211, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 271-272, provided an account and placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group. See comments regarding Venezuelan populations by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 53. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 52, commented on the Venezuelan distribution. Kaiser, Barrio-Amorós, Trujillo, and Lynch, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 290-294, discussed introductions and current range in Venezuela. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 192-196 discussed the introduced populations on Bermuda, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia (Barranquilla area), Guyana, French Guiana, Curacao, Trinidad, Dominica, Guadeloupe, the Grenadines, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, and Martinique. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59-60. Daudin and de Silva, 2007, Appl. Herpetol., 4: 163-175, reported on island distribution in the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Lorvelec, Pascal, Pavis, and Feldmann, 2007, Appl. Herpetol., 4: 131-161, discussed controversies regarding the native range and subsequent introductions. Ibáñez and Rand, 1990, Herpetol. Rev., 21: 37, provided a record for an introduced population in Panama. Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 334, commented on the lack of specimens from Surinam. Montes and Bernal, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 439, provided a record for an introduced population in the municipality of Mariquita, Tolima, Colombia.
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