Eleutherodactylus goini Schwartz, 1960

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

Eleutherodactylus ricordi goini Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 19. Holotype: AMNH 63212, by original designation. Type locality: "south base of Pan de Guajaibón, 3 km W and 13.5 km S Las Pozas, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba".

Eleutherodactylus planirostris goini — Schwartz, 1965, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 22: 100.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris goini — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) goini — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 225 (unintended combination); Estrada and Hedges, 1997, Caribb. J. Sci., 33: 227–232; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas goini — 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

Guaniguanico Yellow-mottled Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10). 

Distribution

Moist forests of the Cordillera de Guaniguanico, Pinar del Rio and Artemisa Provinces, western Cuba, 70–730 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus planirostris. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus planirostris species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 81, 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: 342. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 85–86, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 52–53, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 30, provided a dot map and localities.

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