Eleutherodactylus pictissimus Cochran, 1935

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

Eleutherodactylus pictissimus Cochran, 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 371. Holotype: MCZ 19846, by original designation. Type locality: "Tardieu, Massif de la Hotte, [Département du Sud,] Haiti, about 3000 feet altitude".

Eleutherodactylus pictissimus pictissimusSchwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 102.

Eleutherodactylus pictissimus apantheatus Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 102. Holotype: MCZ 43195, by original designation. Type locality: "6.5 mi. northeast of Jimaní, Independencia Province, República Dominicana".

Eleutherodactylus pictissimus eremus Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 107. Holotype: MCZ 43196, by original designation. Type locality: "9.7 mi. east of Azua, Azua Province, República Dominicana".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimusHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus eremusHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) apantheatusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. Unintended combination.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) eremusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Unintended combination.

Euhyas pictissimaFrost, 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; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

Painted Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Hispaniolan Yellow-mottled Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).

Distribution

Southern paleo-island of Hispaniola; Massif de la Hotte, Tiburon Peninsula, and Plaine de Cul de Sac–Valle de Neiba, Haiti; and along the Peninsula de Barahona, elevations of sea level to 1758 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, and consisting of three geographic races, according to Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 101–114, one of which was treated as a species (Eleutherodactylus probolaeus) by Schwartz and Thomas, 1975, Spec. Publ. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 1: 33. Eleutherodactylus pictissimus apantheatus and Eleutherodactylus pictissimus eremus were treated as distinct species by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220; without discussion. See account by Schwartz, 1976, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 21: 3–0. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus pictissimus group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. See Eleutherodactylus apantheatus and Eleutherodactylus eremus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii species series, Eleutherodactylus lentus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 82, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 368. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 70, summarized the natural history literature. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed systematic history and uncertainties as well as conservation status. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status and related issues in Haiti.  

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