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Eleutherodactylus casparii Dunn, 1926
Eleutherodactylus casparii Dunn, 1926, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 215. Holotype: MCZ 11130, by original designation. Type locality: "Mina Carlota", near Cienfuegos, Las Villas [now Cienfuegos] Province, Cuba.
Eleutherodactylus ricordii casparii — Goin, 1955, Am. Mus. Novit., 1708: 1.
Eleutherodactylus planirostris casparii — Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 100.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) casparii — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222; Estrada and Hedges, 1997, Caribb. J. Sci., 33: 227-232; without discussion; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas casparii — 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.
Common Names
Trinidad Flat-headed Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9).
Distribution
Mesic forests of the Sierra de Trinidad, Sanctispiritus and Cienfuegos Provinces, Cuba, 300–830 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Cuba
Endemic: Cuba
Comment
See comment under Eleutherodactylus planirostris. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus planirostris 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: 326. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 84–85, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 41, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 30, provided a dot map and localities.
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