Eleutherodactylus corona Hedges and Thomas, 1992

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

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) corona Hedges and Thomas, 1992, Herpetologica, 48: 351. Holotype: USNM 310824, by original designation. Type locality: "Caye Paul (10.7 km WNW Les Platons), Dépt. du Sud, Haiti, 1120 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) coronaLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) coronaHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 11.

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

English Names

Caye Paul Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Hispaniolan Crowned Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in remnant high-elevation cloud forest in the Massif de la Hotte, Tiburon Peninsula, southwestern Haiti, ca. 1120 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

Subgenus Euhyas, Eleutherodactylus bakeri series, according to the original publication, where external morphology and the advertisement were described. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, Eleutherodactylus abbotti group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus bakeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 74, 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: 329. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 46, 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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