Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes ricordii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 623. Holotype: MNHNP 754, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 29. Type locality: "l'île de Cuba"; restricted to "Oriente [Province]", Cuba, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 236. [Note that Oriente Province has subsequently been partitioned.]

Euhyas ricordii — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31.

Hylodes (Euhyas) ricordi — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.

Lithodytes ricordii — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 31.

Hylodes ricordii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 213.

Eleutherodactylus ricordii — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Stejneger, 1905, in Shattuck (ed.), Bahama Islands: 331; Barbour, 1910, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23: 100.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii — 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 ricordii — 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

Ricord's Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 63; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 81).

Bahamian Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 81).

Ricordi's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Sierra Maestra in Granma, Santiago, and Guantánamo provinces, and the Nipe--Sagua--Baracoa mountain system in Holguín and Guantanamo provinces, eastern Cuba, 30-1150 m elevation.

Comment

Ssee Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 99-101. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii species series, Eleutherodactylus ricordii species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 82-83. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 374. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 92-93, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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