Eleutherodactylus cundalli Dunn, 1926

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

Eleutherodactylus cundalli Dunn, 1926, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 38: 121. Holotype: MCZ 11126, by original designation. Type locality: "Spaldings, Clarendon Parish (altitude 2900 feet)", Jamaica.

Eleutherodactylus lynni Goin and Cooper, 1950, Occas. Pap. Mus. Inst. Jamaica, 4: 4. Holotype: USNM 127976, by original designation. Type locality: "Sweetwater, near Horse Guards Road, St. James Parish, Jamaica". Synonymy by Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 69.

Eleutherodactylus cundalli cundalliSchwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 69.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cundalliHedges, 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 cundalliFrost, 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

Cundall's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Jamaican Rockfrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Western Jamaica, sea level to 635 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: 65; see also Crombie, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 194–204. In the less inclusive Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus series, Eleutherodactylus cundalli group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 321. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) cundalli group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. 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 map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 331. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 46–47, summarized the natural history literature.

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