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 blairhedgesi — Frost, 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) blairhedgesi — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Common 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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