Leptodactylus fallax Müller, 1926
Leptodactylus dominicensis Müller, 1923, Zool. Anz., 57: 42. Holotype: ZSM 258/1909 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 174. Type locality: "Dominica", Lesser Antilles. Junior homonym of Leptodactylus dominicensis Cochran, 1923.
Leptodactylus fallax Müller, 1926, Zool. Anz., 65: 200. Replacement name for Leptodactylus dominicensis Müller, 1923.
English Names
Dominican White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Mountain Chicken (IUCN; Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 401).
Distribution
St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia (now extant only on Montserrat and Dominica, Lesser Antilles). Introduced unsuccessfully on Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
Comment
In the Leptodactylus pentadactylus group of Heyer, 1972, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 231: 1-8, and Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 1-43. See accounts by Lescure, 1979, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 1: 757-774; and Kaiser, 1994, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 583: 1-3. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 401.
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