Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus thorectes Hedges, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 636. Holotype: FSM 64545, by original designation. Type locality: "the crest and peak of Morne Macay, Dépt. du Sud, Haiti (18° 22´ 53 N, 74° 01´ 29 W), 2200-2340 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) thorectes — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322. 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) thorectes — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

Euhyas thorectes — 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

Morne Macay Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Distribution

Restricted to the highest elevations of the Massif de la Hotte, southwestern Haiti, 1700-2340 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) bakeri series according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, Eleutherodactylus abbotti group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. Reviewed by Hedges and Powell, 1998, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 667: 1-2. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus bakeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 74. 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: 384.

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