Eleutherodactylus gundlachi Schmidt, 1920

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

Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 244. Holotye: MCZ 3056, by original designation. Type locality: "La Union, Monte Líbano, Guantánamo [Province], eastern Cuba". Preoccupied by Hylodes plicatus Günther, 1900 (= Eleutherodactylus rhodopis [Cope, 1866]).

Eleutherodactylus gundlachi Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 3. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914.

Hylodes barbouri Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 416. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus plicatus Barbour, 1914.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) gundlachiHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas gundlachiFrost, 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

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

Turquino Spiny Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Southeastern Cuba; uplands of the Sierra Maestra, Sierra del Cobre, Sierra de la Gran Piedra, east to the mountains north of Imías, 200–1970 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 344. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 65-66, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 55, summarized the natural history literature. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus gundlachi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 79–80, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 24–25, provided a dot map and localities. Bignotte-Giró, Fong-G., and López-Iborra, 2019, Amphibia-Reptilia, 40: 1–11, reported on the call and niche partitioning. 

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