Eleutherodactylus tonyi Estrada and Hedges, 1997

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

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) tonyi Estrada and Hedges, 1997, Caribb. J. Sci., 33: 227. Holotype: MNHNCU 683, by original designation. Type locality: "Cueva del Fustete, Meseta de Cabo Cruz, Municipio Niquero, Granma Province, Cuba, 50 m".

Euhyas tonyiFrost, 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) tonyiHeinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Meseta de Cabo Cruz, Granma Province, and the vicinity of Penta Peñón del Macho in Santiago de Cuba Province, eastern Cuba, 0–70 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

Similar to Eleutherodactylus planirostris according to the original publication. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 89–90, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 79–80, summarized the natural history literature. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris species series, Eleutherodactylus planirostris species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 31, provided a dot map and localities.

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