Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes monensis Meerwarth, 1901, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 18: 39. Holotype: ZMH 761, lost, according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 212. Type locality: "[Isla] Mona", Puerto Rico.

Eleutherodactylus monensis — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 595.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) monensis — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas monensis — 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

Isla Mona Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).

Distribution

Mona I., adjacent to Puerto Rico, 0-10 m elevation.

Comment

Subgenus Euhyas. In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, but of uncertain affinities according to Schwartz, 1976, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 21: 1-46. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus pictissimus group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. 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: 358.

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