Pristimantis shrevei (Schwartz, 1967)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis shrevei

Eleutherodactylus urichi shrevei Schwartz, 1967, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 24: 13. Holotype: MCZ 43230, by original designation. Type locality: "Lowrt, 1000 feet (305 meters), St. Andrew Parish, St. Vincent".

Eleutherodactylus shreveiKaiser, Hardy, and Green, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 791.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) shreveiLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232.

Pristimantis shreveiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) shreveiHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

English Names

Saint Vincent Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 15). 

Distribution

Montane forests and meadows of St. Vincent Island, 275–922 m elevation, Lesser Antilles.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Endemic: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group according to Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 99–115. See account by Kaiser, Hardy, and Green, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 780–796. Kaiser, Green, and Schmid, 1994, Canad. J. Zool., 72: 2217–2237, discussed the phylogenetic relationships of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. Reviewed by Diaz-Lameiro, 2008, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 844: 1–4. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus shrevei) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 380. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 98, summarized the natural history literature.

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