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Eleutherodactylus cubanus Barbour, 1942
Eleutherodactylus parvus Barbour and Shreve, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 80: 386. Holotype: MCZ 21947, by original designation. Type locality: "Cueva del Aura, Turquino Peak, circa 3500 feet, Oriente [now Santiago de Cuba Province], Cuba". Secondary homonym of Hylodes parvus Girard, 1853.
Eleutherodactylus cubanus Barbour, 1942, Copeia, 1942: 179. Replacement name for Eleutherodactylus parvus Barbour and Shreve, 1937.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cubanus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas cubana — 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
Cuban Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Turquino Red-armed Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10).
Distribution
Sierra Maestra, Granma and Santiago de Cuba Provinces, southeastern Cuba, at 800 to 1830 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Cuba
Endemic: Cuba
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. In the Eleutherodactylus varleyi group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 339; and Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. Transferred to the Eleutherodactylus limbatus group by Estrada and Hedges, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 856. In Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas), unassigned to species group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus limbatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 80, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 331. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 58, provided a brief account. Rodríguez, Alonso, Rodríguez, and Vences, 2012, Salamandra, 48: 71–91, reported on molecular phylogenetics of this species. Rodriguez, Poth, Schulz, Gehara, and Vences, 2013, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 68: 541–554, reported on its molecular phylogenetic relationships. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 46, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 26–27, provided a dot map and localities.
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