Eleutherodactylus bakeri Cochran, 1935

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

Eleutherodactylus bakeri Cochran, 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 369. Holotype: MCZ 19837, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. La Hotte [= Pic Macaya], [Département du Sud,] Haiti, 5000 to 7800 feet altitude".

Eleutherodactylus bakeri bakeriShreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 325.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) bakeriHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) bakeriLynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220.

Euhyas bakeri — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

Common Names

Baker's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

La Hotte Bushfrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9). 

Distribution

Southwestern Haiti, restricted to the upper elevations (890–2324 m elevation) of the Massif de la Hotte in the region of Morne Formon and Morne Macaya, and in the region of Casillon.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group (now in the subgenus Eleutherodactylus—DRF), according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 302–342, and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1980, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 247: 1. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus bakeri series by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, not assigned to group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus bakeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 74, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. 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: 320. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 38-39, 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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