Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus varleyi Dunn, 1925, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 163. Holotype: MCZ 10601, by original designation. Type locality: "Soledad, [Cienfuegos Province,] Cuba".

Eleutherodactylus phyzelus Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 7. Holotype: AMNH 59832, by original designation. Type locality: "4.4 miles northwest of San Vicente, on road between San Vicente and Puerto Esperanza, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba". Synonymy by Schwartz, 1964, Breviora, 208: 9.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) varleyi — 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 varleyi — 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

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

Distribution

Western Sancti Spiritus Province west as well as the Isla de Juventud, sea leval to 900 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2; Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 339; and Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus gundlachi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 79-80. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 68-69, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Díaz, Hedges, and Schmid, 2012, Zootaxa, 3220: 44-60, redelimited the species by partitioning out Eleutherodactylus feichtingeri and noted another cryptic species hiding under this name in Artemesia Province, Cuba.

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