Eleutherodactylus acmonis Schwartz, 1960

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

English Names

El Yunque Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Cuban Red-rumped Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9). 

Distribution

Yunque de Baracoa, northeastern Guantánamo Province, Cuba, 500–1150 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to the original publication. 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: 219. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii species series, Eleutherodactylus ricordii species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 82–83, 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: 314. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 90–91, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies : 33–34, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 32, provided a dot map and localities. Note that in some places (e.g., Red List, Map of Life, Berkeley Mapper) the species is mapped as extending  much farther to the west; this is due to old misidentifications of Eleutherodactylus ricordii (A. Fong, personal commun., 6 Sept 2023, by way of R. Powell). 

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