Eleutherodactylus eunaster Schwartz, 1973

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

Eleutherodactylus eunaster Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 250. Holotype: USNM 189254, by original designation. Type locality: "Castillon, ca. 2500 feet (763 m), Département de Sud, Haiti".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) eunasterHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322-323; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 11.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) eunasterLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

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

English Names

Les Cayes Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

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

Distribution

Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, 575–1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

Most closely related to Eleutherodactylus glanduliferoides, according to the original publication, and thus associated with the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group of Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 339–341. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1982, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 285: 1. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Eyhyas) bakeri series by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322–323. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, Eleutherodactylus abbotti group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. 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: 337. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 50, 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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