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Eleutherodactylus cavernicola Lynn, 1954
Eleutherodactylus cavernicola Lynn, 1954, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 44: 400. Holotype: USNM 135239, by original designation. Type locality: "Portland Cave, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, B.W.I.".
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cavernicola — Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147; Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 321; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas cavernicola — 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
Portland Cave Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).
Portland Ridge Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9).
Distribution
Portland Ridge and Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, 10–15 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Jamaica
Endemic: Jamaica
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 77, and Crombie, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 194–202. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus series, Eleutherodactylus cundalli group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 321. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cundalli group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group, Eleutherodactylus cundalli species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 71. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group 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: 326. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 41, summarized the natural history literature.
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