Eleutherodactylus turquinensis Barbour and Shreve, 1937
Eleutherodactylus turquinensis Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 380. Holotype: MCZ 21975, by original designation. Type locality: "near Cueva del Aura, Turquino Peak, 1500-4000 feet, Oriente [now Santiago de Cuba Province], Cuba".
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) turquinensis — 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 turquinensis — 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
Turquino Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Known only from the Sierra Maestra in Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba, 450-1830 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. 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: 233. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus cuneatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 68-69. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 387. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 105-106, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.
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