Eupemphix bolbodactyla Lutz, 1925, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 93 (1925, vol. 2): 138. Syntypes: Not stated, by museum records MNRJ and USNM 96542-43; MNRJ 445 designated lectotype by Pombal and Cruz, 1999, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 404: 7. Type locality: "Angra do Reis", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Basanitia bolbodactyla — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 219.
Eleutherodactylus bolbodactylus — Lynch, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 875-876.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) bolbodactylus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221.
Ischnocnema bolbodactyla — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 15. Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27.
Rio Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Southern state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) binotatus series, Eleutherodactylus lacteus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 221. Pombal and Cruz, 1999, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 404: 1-10, provided a taxonomic account of the species and noted that São Paulo records of this species applied to Eleutherodactylus nigroventris and Eleutherodactylus gehrti. In the Ischnocnema lactea species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27.
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