Eleutherodactylus blairhedgesi Estrada, Díaz, and Rodriguez, 1998

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

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) blairhedgesi Estrada, Díaz, and Rodriguez, 1998 "1997", Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 11: 19. Holotype: MNHNCU 666, by original designation. Type locality: "la vertiente norte de la Loma Canasí, municipio Santa Cruz del Norte, provincia de La Habana [now Mayabeque], Cuba, 5 m de altitud (s.n.m.)".

Euhyas blairhedgesiFrost, 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) blairhedgesiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

English Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the local region of the type locality (Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque Province, Cuba).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

 Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus pinarensis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 81, 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: 323. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 95-96, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 39-40, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 28, provided a dot map and localities.

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