Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes lentus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 151. Syntypes: by original designation "Mus. Smithsonian. Rüse Coll." (USNM, now lost?), but including ANSP 2270-71, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: errata (not ANSP 2770-71 as stated by Malnate on page 351). Type locality: "St. Thomas", U.S. Virgin Islands.

Hylodes (Lithodytes) lentus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.

Hylodes Riisei Reinhardt and Lütken, 1863 "1862", Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., Ser. 2, 4: 211. Syntypes: ZMUC, by original designation; including ZMUC R.1175-76, R.1185-86, R.11100-03. NHMW 22872.1-3 also considered syntypes by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 21. Type locality: "St. Thomas", U.S. Virgin Islands. Synonymy by Cope, 1870 "1869", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 164; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 207.

Eleutherodactylus lentus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 247.

Hylodes lentus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 420.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) lentus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. 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 lenta — 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

Virgin Islands Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Distribution

The U.S. Virgin Islands; Hassel I., St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 333, and Schwartz, 1976, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 21: 1-46. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, unassigned to species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii species series, Eleutherodactylus lentus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 82. 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: 353.

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