Eleutherodactylus paralius Schwartz, 1976

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

Eleutherodactylus weinlandi paralius Schwartz, 1976, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 21: 16. Holotype: USNM 194004, by original designation. Type locality: "14 km SE, 1 km N Boca Chica, San Pedro de Macorís Province, República Dominicana".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) paraliusLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230 (unintended combination); Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 82.

English Names

Coastal Red-rumped Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11).

Distribution

Southeastern Dominican Republic, from Santo Domingo east to La Romana Province.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic

Endemic: Dominican Republic

Comment

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. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 69, summarized the natural history literature.

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