Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Lithodytes gaigei Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 387. Holotype: MCZ 10011, by original designation. Type locality: "Fort Randolph, Panama Canal Zone", Panama.

Eleutherodactylus gaigei — Piatt, 1934, Am. Midl. Nat., 15: 89-91. Lynch, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 279.

Eleutherodactylus gaigeae — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 766. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) gaigei — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

Pristimantis gaigeae — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) gaigeae — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

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

Distribution

Atlantic drainage lowlands from extreme southeastern Costa Rica to eastern Panama and on the Pacific versant in central Colombia; populations in the river valleys of the Sinú, Cauca, and Magdalena.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri group, but with no close relative, according to Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 178, who redescribed the holotype. Lynch, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 278-280, suggested that Taylor's (1952) emendation was unjustified, although (p. 388) Dunn explicitly associated the name with Helen Gaige. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 263-264, provided an account, discussed the spelling of the species name, and included this species in his Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus gaigeae group. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed reasons for why gaigei is not emendable. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) conspicillatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120.

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