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Eleutherodactylus symingtoni Schwartz, 1957
Eleutherodactylus symingtoni Schwartz, 1957, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 70: 210. Holotype: AMNH 60801, by original designation. Type locality: "Cueva de Santo Tomás, 10 kilometers north of Cabezas, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba".
Eleutherodactylus delacruzi Estrada, Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1986, Poeyana, 329: 7. Holotype: CZACC 4.11931, by original designation. Type locality: "abrigo rocoso en la Loma del Mulo, Sierra del Rosario, 14 km al N de Candelaria, Pinar del Río, Cuba". Synonymy by Estrada, Novo-Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1989, Rev. Biol., Cuba, 3: 160.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) delacruzi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325.
Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) symingtomi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325; Estrada, Novo-Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1989, Rev. Biol., Cuba, 3: 157.
Eleutherodactylus delacruci — Estrada, Novo-Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1989, Rev. Biol., Cuba, 3: 155. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Euhyas symingtoni — 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.
Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) symingtoni — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.
Common Names
Symington's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).
Western Spiny Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).
Distribution
Pinar del Río, Artemisa, and Mayabaque provinces, western Cuba, 70–155 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Cuba
Endemic: Cuba
Comment
See Schwartz, 1957, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 70: 212, and Estrada, Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1986, Poeyana, 329: 1–14 (as Elutherodactylus delacruzi), for accounts. See comment under Eleutherodactylus zeus. Placed in the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) symingtoni group by Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325, and Estrada, Novo-Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1989, Rev. Biol., Cuba, 3: 160, and Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See Estrada, Novo-Rodriguez, and Moreno, 1989, Rev. Biol., Cuba, 3: 155–165, for discussion of western populations. Rodríguez and Alonso, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 237, provided a new record for the Sierra de la Güira in Cuba and discussed the range. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) symingtoni species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 93, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 132. 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: 383. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 101–102, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 78, summarized the natural history literature. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) symingtoni clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics.
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