Eleutherodactylus pinchoni Schwartz, 1967

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

Eleutherodactylus pinchoni Schwartz, 1967, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 24: 45. Holotype: MCZ 43231, by original designation. Type locality: "3 km W Grand Café, 600 feet (183 m), Guadeloupe, French West Indies [Lesser Antilles]".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) pinchoniHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.

English Names

Grand Cafe Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Guadeloupe Forest Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).

Distribution

The Basse-Terre portion of Guadeloupe, 0–1250 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guadeloupe

Endemic: Guadeloupe

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to the original publication and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. Kaiser, Green, and Schmid, 1994, Canad. J. Zool., 72: 2217–2237, discussed the phylogenetic relationships of this species. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group. See account by Kaiser, Murdoch, Boistel, and Breuil, 2003, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 765: 1–3. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59–60. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series 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: 368. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 71, summarized the natural history literature.

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