Eleutherodactylus mariposa Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992

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

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) mariposa Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992, Herpetol. Monogr., 6: 78. Holotype: MNHNCU 591, by original designation. Type locality: "5.4 km WSW La Tagua, Meseta del Guaso, [Guantanamo Province,] Cuba, 720 m".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) mariposaHedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 55-56.

Common Names

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

Cuban Butterfly-marked Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11). 

Distribution

Known only from La Tagua and Los Hondones on the Meseta del Guaso, Guantánamo Province, southeastern Cuba, ca. 720 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

Subgenus Eleutherodactylus according to the original publication. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, Eleutherodactylus abbotti group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992, Herpetol. Monogr., 6: 68–83, reported on the call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) auriculatus species series, Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 55, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 129. 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: 356. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 116–117, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Rodríguez, Vences, Nevado, Machordom, and Verheyen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 54: 179–186, reported on the phylogenetic placement of the species within the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group. 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: 13, provided a dot map and localities.

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