Eleutherodactylus wetmorei Cochran, 1932
Eleutherodactylus wetmorei Cochran, 1932, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45: 191. Holotype: USNM 72617, by original designation. Type locality: "Fonds-des-Nègres, [Département du Sud,] Haiti".
Eleutherodactylus auriculatus wetmorei — Cochran, 1941, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 177: 74.
Eleutherodactylus varians wetmorei — Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 6.
Eleutherodactylus wetmorei wetmorei — Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 3.
Eleutherodactylus wetmorei ceraemerus Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 5. Holotype: MCZ 36101, by original designation. Type locality: "Thiotte, Dépt. de l'Ouest, Haiti".
Eleutherodactylus wetmorei williamsi Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 9. Holotype: MCZ 37757, by original designation. Type locality: "Marfranc, Dépt. du Sud, Haiti". Preoccupied by Eleutherodactylus williamsi Rivero, 1961.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) wetmorei — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) ceraemerus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Unintended combination.
English Names
Wetmore's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Distribution
Tiberon Peninsula (Haiti) east to the Massif de la Selle of southwestern Dominican Republic; also from the Massif du Nord of west-central Dominican Republic west to north-central Haiti, 0-1324 m elevation.
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 302-342, and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 1-13, who recognized three subspecies (of which, Eleutherodactylus diplasius and Eleutherodactylus sommeri are now recognized distinct species). In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus montanus series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. See Eleutherodactylus diplasius, Eleutherodactylus ceraemerus, and Eleutherodactylus sommeri. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 64, who suggested that the nominal subspecies, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei ceramaerus likely constituted a distinct species. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 390.
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