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 tonyi — 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.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) tonyi — Heinicke, 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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