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Eleutherodactylus dolomedes Hedges and Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) dolomedes Hedges and Thomas, 1992, Herpetologica, 48: 356. Holotype: USNM 309780, by original designation. Type locality: "Caye Paul (10.7 km WNW Les Platons), Dépt. du Sud, Haiti, 1120 m".
Euhyas dolomedes — 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) dolomedes — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
English Names
Hedge's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).
Puerto Rican Ventrilquial Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10).
Distribution
Known only from the vicinity of the type locality in remnant cloud forest in the Massif de la Hotte, Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti, 1120 m elevation.
Comment
A member of the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) bakeri series, according to the original publication, where external morphology and the advertisement call were described. In Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas), not assigned to species group by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus bakeri species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 74, and 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: 334. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 48, summarized the natural history literature.
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