Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus orcutti Dunn, 1928, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 74: 1. Holotype: USNM 73866, by original designation. Type locality: "Arntully, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica".

Eleutherodactylus cunctator Dunn, 1928, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 74: 2. Holotype: USNM 73865, by original designation. Type locality: "Arntully, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica". Synonymy by Lynn, 1940, Bull Inst. Jamaica Sci. Ser., 1: 56; Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 40; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) orcutti — Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147. Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas orcutti — 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

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

Distribution

Eastern Jamaica; inland portions of Portland, St. Andrew, and St. Thomas parishes, 225-1215 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus orcutti group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 326-327, but placed in the Eleutherodactylus gossei group by Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 135, and Crombie, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 194-204. In the less inclusive Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus series, Eleutherodactylus nubicola group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322, and Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) nubicola group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. See comment under Eleutherodactylus semipalmatus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group, Eleutherodactylus nubicola species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 72. 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: 362.

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