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Eleutherodactylus toa Estrada and Hedges, 1991

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus

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Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) toa Estrada and Hedges, 1991, Caribb. J. Sci., 27: 140. Holotype: CARE 00438, by original designation. Type locality: "la cabeza del río Yarey, Yateras, Guantánamo, Cuba".

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Elevations of 195 to 900 m in the region of the type locality (Yateras), Macizo de Sagua--Baracoa, Holguín and Guantánamo provinces, eastern Cuba.

Comment

Subgenus Euhyas, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, monotypic Eleutherodactylus toa species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 73. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus thymalopsoides) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 385. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 106-107, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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