Eleutherodactylus probolaeus Schwartz, 1965

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

English Names

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

Boca de Yuma Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).

Distribution

Vicinity of type locality (La Romana Province, Dominican Republic), 0–600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic

Endemic: Dominican Republic

Comment

Reviewed by Schwartz, 1976, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 21: 23–26. See comment under Eleutherodactylus pictissimus. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus pictissimus group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 324. 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: 370. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 73, summarized the natural history literature.

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