Eleutherodactylus furcyensis Shreve and Williams, 1963

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

English Names

Furcy Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

La Selle Red-legged Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Southern Hispaniola in the region of the Massif de la Selle (Haiti) to the western Sierra de Baoruco (Dominican Republic), 800–2100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to the original publication. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 309: 1. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 77, 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: 339. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 51, 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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