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Eleutherodactylus nubicola Dunn, 1926
Eleutherodactylus nubicola Dunn, 1926, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 38: 116. Holotype: MCZ 2846, by original designation. Type locality: "Cinchona Plantation (altitude 5100 feet)", St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica.
Eleutherodactylus luteolus nubicola — Dunn, 1928, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 74: 1.
Eleutherodactylus nubicola — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 102.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) nubicola — Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123-147; Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Euhyas nubicola — 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
Portland Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77).
Jamaican Red-eyed Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 11).
Distribution
Eastern Jamaica; high elevations (1060 to 1880 m) of the Blue Mountains in the conterminous parts of Portland, St. Thomas, and St. Andrew parishes.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Jamaica
Endemic: Jamaica
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus gossei group according to Goin, 1954, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 33: 186, and Crombie, 1977, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 90: 194–204. In the less inclusive Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) nubicola group (of the Eleutherodactylus luteolus series) of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 322, and Hedges, 1990 "1989", Caribb. J. Sci., 25: 123–147, and Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229. See account by Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 103. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group, Eleutherodactylus nubicola species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 72. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus luteolus species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 361. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 67, summarized the natural history literature.
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