Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hylodes Güntheri Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 246. Holotype: NHMW 16515, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 21, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26. Type locality: "Brasilien"; rendered as "Rio dos Macacos", in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26, and Kwet and Solé, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 532.

Euhyas Gravenhorstii Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 53. Nomen nudum presented as a synonym of Hylodes güntheri and attributed to Fitzinger.

Eleutherodactylus guentheri — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583. by implication; Lynn and Lutz, 1946, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 71: 1.

Elosia divisa Wandolleck, 1907, Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 11: 4. Types: Not stated; presumably originally in MTD, destroyed according to Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 19. Type locality: "Urwäldern von Petropolis", Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Synonymy by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 271.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) guentheri — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225.

Ischnocnema guentheri — 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: 15; Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27.

English Names

Guenther's Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 64; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 83).

Steindachner's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Known from the states of Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus guentheri cluster of Heyer, 1984, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 402: 42. See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 296-297. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) binotatus series, Eleutherodactylus binotatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 83, provided a brief account and photo (at the time including Eleutherodactylus henselii as a synonym). Siqueira, Ananias, and Recco-Pimentel, 2004, Genet. Mol. Biol., 27: 363-372, compared the karyotypes of Eleutherodactylus binotatus, Eleutherodactylus guentheri, and Eleutherodactylus parvus. Kwet and Solé, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 521-532, revised this taxon, showing Eleutherodactylus henselii to be a distinct species, and noted another unnamed species within nominal Eleutherodactylus guentheri from Boraceia, São Paulo, Brazil. In the Ischnocnema guentheri species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 27. Cruz, Feio, and Caramaschi, 2009, Anf. Ibitipoca: 52-53, provided photographs and a brief account for Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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