Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Sminthillus limbatus orientalis Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 379. Holotype: MCZ 22082, by original designation. Type locality: "El Yunque de Baracoa, 1000-1800 feet, Oriente [now in Guantánamo Province], Cuba".

Eleutherodactylus orientalis — Estrada and Hedges, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 855.

Euhyas orientalis — 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) orientalis — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality, an isolated limestone mountain (El Yunque de Baracoa, Guantanamo Province, Cuba).

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) limbatus group according to Estrada and Hedges, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 856. 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: 362. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 63-64, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Rodríguez, Alonso, Rodríguez, and Vences, 2012, Salamandra, 48: 71-91, reported on molecular phylogenetics of this species.

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