Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phyllobates limbatus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 154. Syntypes: "Mus. Smithsonian [USNM], (No. 5206) Mr. Chas. Wright's Coll. Acad. Philada."; given as USNM 5205 (6 specimens) by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69, ANSP specimens presumably lost. Type locality: "Eastern Cuba".

Sminthillus limbatus — Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 402.

Sminthillus limbatus limbatus — Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 379. By implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) limbatus — 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 limbata — 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

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

Distribution

Patchy distribution in Habana, Cienfuegos, Holguin, Guantánamo, and Santiago de Cuba provinces, Cuba, 50-1150 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) limbatus group, subgenus Euhyas, according to Estrada and Hedges, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 856. In Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) but unassigned to species group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus limbatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 80. 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: 354. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 61-62, provided a brief account and map. Rodríguez, Alonso, Rodríguez, and Vences, 2012, Salamandra, 48: 71-91, reported on molecular phylogenetics of this species and provided evidence that suggests that the Gran Piedra population is not conspecific with the rest of nominal Eleutherodactylus limbatus.

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