Eleutherodactylus locustus Schmidt, 1920

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

Eleutherodactylus locustus Schmidt, 1920, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 28: 174. Holotype: AMNH 10240, by original designation. Type locality: "El Yunque, near the Forester's Cabin (about 1300 feet), Luquillo Forest Reserve, Porto Rico [= Puerto Rico]".

Eleutherodactylus cramptoni Schmidt, 1920, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 28: 176. Holotype: AMNH 10305, by original designation. Type locality: "peak of El Yunque", 3485 feet altitude, Bosque Experimental de Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Synonymy by Schwartz and Thomas, 1975, Spec. Publ. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 1: 27.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) locustusHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 9.

English Names

Interior Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Puerto Rican Small-eared Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11). 

Distribution

Known from widely scattered interior localities in eastern Puerto Rico, 270 to 1050 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Puerto Rico

Endemic: Puerto Rico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, unassigned to species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus antillensis species group, Eleutherodactylus locustus species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) antillensis species series, Eleutherodactylus locustus species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 129. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 63, summarized the natural history literature.

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