Eleutherodactylus furcyensis Shreve and Williams, 1963

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

English Names

Furcy Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

La Selle Red-legged Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Southern Hispaniola in the region of the Massif de la Selle (Haiti) to the western Sierra de Baoruco (Dominican Republic), 800–2100 m elevation.

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to the original publication. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pictissimus series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 323. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 309: 1. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) oxyrhyncus species series, Eleutherodactylus rufifemoralis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 77, 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: 339. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 51, summarized the natural history literature.

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