Eleutherodactylus ventrilineatus (Shreve, 1936)
Leptodactylus ventrilineatus Shreve, 1936, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 15: 98. Holotype: MCZ 19857, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. La Hotte [=Pic Macaya], 5000 ft. to summit, [Département du Sud,] Haiti".
Eleutherodactylus ventrilineatus — Cochran, 1941, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 177: 35.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ventrilineatus — 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 ventrilineata — 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
La Hotte Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Known only from the peaks of Formon and Macaya on the Massif de la Hotte, southwestern Haiti, 1700-2340 m elevation.
Comment
A peripheral member of the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group, possibly annectent to the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 338; in the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group, according to Schwartz, 1965, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 78: 168. In the Eleutherodactylus varleyi 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), unassignable to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus glandulifer species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 76. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus turumiquirensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 388.
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