Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes planirostris Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153. Type(s): "Mus. Salem" (= Peabody Essex Museum), now lost according to XXX. Type locality: "New Providence Island, Bahamas".

Eleutherodactylus planirostris — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication.

Eleutherodactylus ricordii planirostris — Shreve, 1945, Copeia, 1945: 117.

Eleutherodactylus planirostris planirostris — Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 100.

Eleutherodactylus planirostris planirostris — Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 100.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. 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 planirostris — 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

Greenhouse Frog (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 303; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9).

Distribution

Widespread on Cuba and the Isla de Juventud (0-720 m elevation), Cayman Is., Caicos Is.; introduced in peninsular Florida, southern Louisiana, southern Georgia, and Oahu and Hawaii Is., Hawaii (USA), Guam, Jamaica, Honduras, Surinam, and Veracruz (Mexico).

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 16. Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 99-101, recognized four subspecies (of which Eleutherodctylus goini, Eleutherodactylus rogersi and Eleutherodactylus casparii are now considered distinct species). Reviewed by Schwartz, 1974, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 154: 1-4 (sensu lato). Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. Hawaiian records by Kraus, Campbell, Allison, and Pratt, 1999, Herpetol. Rev., 30: 21-25. Johnson, Staiger, and Barichivich, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 161-162, commented on the history of colonization in Florida. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 197-200, discussed the introduced populations in Florida, Louisiana, Jamaica, Caicos Islands, and Hawaiian Islands, as well as the possible existence of populations in Veracruz, Alabama, and Grenada. Graham, Timpe, and Giovanetto, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 494-495, provided a specific locality for Georgia, USA. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus planirostris species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 81. McCranie, Collart, Casteñeda, and Solis, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 362, noted an introduced population at San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 86-87, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Christy, Clark, Gee, Vice, Vice, Warner, Tyrrell, Rodda, and Savidge, 2007, Pacific Sci., 61: 469-483, reported reproducing populations on Guam. Meshaka, Boundy, and Williams, 2009, J. Kansas Herpetol., 32: 13-16, discussed introduced range as a commensal in southern Louisiana, USA. See account for introduced Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 108-109.

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