Eleutherodactylus lamprotes Schwartz, 1973

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

Eleutherodactylus lamprotes Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 253. Holotype: CM 54091, by original designation. Type locality: "ca. 2.5 km S Castillon, 3300 ft (1007 m), Département du Sud, Haiti".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) lamprotesLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

English Names

Castillon Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Hispaniolan Orange-legged Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11). 

Distribution

Distal portion of the Tiburon Peninsula in the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti, 818–1455 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus montanus series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus lamprotes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 61–62, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 129. 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: 352. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 61–62, 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 issues bearing on that.

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