Eleutherodactylus varians (Gundlach and Peters, 1864)
Hylodes varians Gundlach and Peters In Peters, 1864, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864: 390. Syntypes: ZMB 5108, MCZ 11621 (on exchange from ZMB, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 281) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 46. Type locality: "Cuba".
Eleutherodactylus varians — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 245.
Eleutherodactylus varians varians Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 8.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.
English Names
Cliff Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Eastern and central Cuba from La Habana to Camagüey Province; Isla de Juventud.
Comment
I In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2; and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 100In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, unassigned to series or species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus varians species group, Eleutherodactylus varians species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 62-64. 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: 388. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 120-121, provided a brief account, illustration, and map (in the sense of including Eleutherodactylus olibrus and Eleutherodactylus staurometopon as subspecies).
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