Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Eleutherodactylus zugi Schwartz, 1958, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 48: 127. Holotype: AMNH 60938, by original designation. Type locality: "Soroa, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba".

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

Euhyas zugi — 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

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

Distribution

Sierra del Rosario, Sierra de Camarones, and Pan de Matanza, in Pinar del Río and Matanzas provinces, Cuba, 155-390 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to the original publication. Two subspecies recognized by Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 33-37. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) zugi species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 84. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 392. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 80-81, provided a brief account, illustration, and map, in the sense of including Eleutherodactylus erythroproctus as a subspecies.

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