Eleutherodactylus alticola Lynn, 1937

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

Eleutherodactylus alticola Lynn, 1937, Herpetologica, 1: 89. Holotype: USNM 102524, by original designation. Type locality: "summit of Blue Mountain Peak, Parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica. Elevation 7,360 feet; the highest point on the island."

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) alticolaHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322; Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas alticolaFrost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 361; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

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

Jamaican Peak Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9). 

Distribution

Jamaica; high elevations in the Blue Mountains between Sir Johns Peak and the type locality, 1650–2250 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Jamaica

Endemic: Jamaica

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus gossei group according to Goin, 1954, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 33: 186: Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 135; and Crombie, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 197–204. In the less inclusive Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus series, Eleutherodactylus nubicola group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322, and Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123–147. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) nubicola group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group, Eleutherodactylus nubicola species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 72. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group 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: 317. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 34-35, summarized the natural history literature.

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