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Eleutherodactylus wightmanae Schmidt, 1920
Eleutherodactylus wightmanae Schmidt, 1920, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 28: 181. Holotype: AMNH 10317, by original designation. Type locality: "El Yunque, near the Forester's Cabin (about 1300 feet)", Bosque Experimental de Luquillo, Puerto Rico.
Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) wightmanae — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.
Common Names
Wightman's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).
Puerto Rican Melodius [sic] Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).
Distribution
Puerto Rico; known from scattered interior upland localities, 150-1189 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Puerto Rico
Endemic: Puerto Rico
Comment
In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, unassigned to species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 327. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) abbotti series, unassigned to species group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis species series, Eleutherodactylus antillensis species group, Eleutherodactylus wightmanae species subgroup of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 59. 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: 391.
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