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Eleutherodactylus tychathrous Schwartz, 1965
Eleutherodactylus ruthae tychathrous Schwartz, 1965, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 132: 491. Holotype: MCZ 43188, by original designation. Type locality: "7 km northwest Vallejuelo, 2600 feet (790 m), San Juan Province, República Dominicana".
Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) ruthae tychathrous — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329, by implication.
Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) tychathrous — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232 (unintended combination); Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 86.
Common Names
Vallejuelo Burrowing Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 12).
Distribution
Intermontane valleys in Sierra de Neiba, Dominican Republic, ca. 2600 ft elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Dominican Republic
Endemic: Dominican Republic
Comment
Powell, 1993, Herpetol. Rev., 24: 135–137, suggested that Eleutherodactylus ruthae tychaethrous warranted binominal status. In the Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) ruthae species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 86 (who formalized recognition of this taxon as a species), and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 80, summarized the natural history literature.
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