Eleutherodactylus glandulifer Cochran, 1935

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus glandulifer

Eleutherodactylus glandulifer Cochran, 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 367. Holotype: MCZ 19851, by original designation. Type locality: "northeastern foothills of Massif de la Hotte [=Pic Macaya], [Département du Sud,] Haiti, between 1000 feet and 4000 feet".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) glanduliferHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas glanduliferFrost, 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.

Euhyas glandulifera — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

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

La Hotte Glanded Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Massif de la Hotte, southwestern Haiti, 300–1886 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 328, and Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 272. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 310: 1. Subgenus Euhyas, but not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus glandulifer species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 76, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. 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: 341. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 51–52, summarized the natural history literature. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status in Haiti and related issues.

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