Eleutherodactylus pinarensis Dunn, 1926

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

Eleutherodactylus pinarensis Dunn, 1926, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 213. Holotype: MCZ 3814, by original designation. Type locality: "Isle of Pines" (= Isla de Pinos, now Isla de Juventud), Cuba; restricted by Schwartz, 1959, Herpetologica, 15: 61, to Los Indios, Isla de Pinos [=Isla de Juventud], Cuba.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) pinarensisHedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Euhyas pinarensisFrost, 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

Pinos Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Cuban Pineland Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).

Distribution

Western third of Cuba; from northwestern Pinar del Rio Province to northern and southern Matanzas Province; Isla de Juventud, 0–381 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus pinarensis species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 81, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. 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: 368. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 99–100, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 70–71, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 27–28, provided a dot map and localities. Torres, Rodríguez-Cabrera, and Cajigas, 2018, Herpetol. Rev., 49: 281–282, provided a range extension in Matanzas Province to the municipality of Martí. 

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