Eleutherodactylus maestrensis Díaz, Cádiz, and Navarro, 2005

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

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) maestrensis Díaz, Cádiz, and Navarro, 2005, Caribb. J. Sci., 41: 308. Holotype: MNHNCU 908, by original designation. Type locality: "'El Nueve' (20° 30´ 18 N, 76° 36´ 13 W), surroundings of Pico La Bayamesa (1324 m), Municipio Buey Arriba, Granma Province", Cuba.

Euhyas maestrensisFrost, 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) maestrensisHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Common Names

Sierra Maestra Long-legged Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11). 

Distribution

Sierra Maestra, 900–1640 m elevation, Granma Province, Cuba.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) dimidiatus species series, Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 66–67, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 76–77, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 64, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 18, provided a dot map and localities.

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