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Eleutherodactylus inoptatus (Barbour, 1914)
Leptodactylus inoptatus Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 252. Holotype: MCZ 3087, by original designation. Type locality: "Diquini, [Département de l'Ouest,] Haiti". Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1104, Anonymous, 1978, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 34: 223.
Eleutherodactylus inoptatus — Schmidt, 1921, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 44: 9.
Eleutherodactylus beebei Cochran, 1956, Zoologica, New York, 42: 11. Holotype: USNM 129526 Type locality: "Kartabo, British Guiana" (in error according to Schwartz, Thomas, and Ober, 1978, Spec. Publ. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 5. Synonymy by Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 61: 1-24.
Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Pelorius inoptatus — 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: 362.
Common Names
Diquini Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).
Hispaniolan Giant Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10).
Distribution
Hispaniola; islandwide but unreported from large areas in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Ile de la Tortue; sea level to 1700 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Haiti
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus inoptatus group, according to Schwartz, 1965, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 132: 508. Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 318, put this species in the more inclusive Eleutherodactylus varians group (= Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group). See discussion by Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 141–156. In a more exclusive Eleutherodactylus inoptatus group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329. Hedges and Thomas, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 269–279, discussed the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. In the Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 85, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 57, summarized the natural history literature. Galvis-Peñuela, Caorsi, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Rada, 2018, Bioacoustics, 27: 1–12, reported on the advertisement call. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status in Haiti and issues bearing on that.
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