Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus zeus Schwartz, 1958, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 71: 38. Holotype: AMNH 60791, by original designation. Type locality: "0.5 mi. south of San Vicente, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) zeus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325.

Euhyas zeus — 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) zeus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

English Names

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

Distribution

Sierra de los Organos and the Sierra del Rosario, Pinar del Río Province, western Cuba, 75-182 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, annectent between Eleutherodactylus greyi (of the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group) and Eleutherodactylus symingtoni (monotypic group), according to the original publication. Considered a member of the Eleutherodactylus symingtoni group by Estrada, Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1986, Poeyana, 329: 1-14, and Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas), unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. Transferred to Syrrhophus by Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) symingtoni species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 391. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 103-104, provided a brief account, illustration, and map.

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