Eleutherodactylus glandulifer Cochran, 1935

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

Eleutherodactylus glandulifer Cochran, 1935, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 40: 367. Holotype: MCZ 19851, by original designation. Type locality: "northeastern foothills of Massif de la Hotte [=Pic Macaya], [Département du Sud,] Haiti, between 1000 feet and 4000 feet".

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) glandulifer — 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 glandulifer — 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.

Euhyas glandulifera — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

Common Names

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

La Hotte Glanded Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Massif de la Hotte, southwestern Haiti, 300–1886 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Haiti

Endemic: Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 328, and Schwartz, 1973, J. Herpetol., 7: 272. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 310: 1. Subgenus Euhyas, but not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. 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 glandulifer species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 76, 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: 341. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 51–52, summarized the natural history literature. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status in Haiti and related issues.

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