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Leptodactylus albilabris (Günther, 1859)
Cystignathus albilabris Günther, 1859, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 4: 217. Syntypes: BMNH 1859.10.1.5–6 (now renumberd 1947.2.17.59–60), 1860.5.18.61–68 (now renumbered 1947.2.17.61–67) according to museum records; BMNH 1947.2.17.60 designated lectotype by Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 37. Type locality: "St. Thomas", U.S. Virgin Islands.
Leptodactylus albilabris — Boulenger, 1881, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 6: 33.
Leptodactylus dominicensis Cochran, 1923, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 13: 184. Holotype: USNM 65670, by original designation. Type locality: "Las Cañitas, Dominican Republic". Synonymy by Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 37.
Common Names
Gunther's White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Hispaniolan Ditch Frog (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 401).
Antillean White-lipped Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 14).
Distribution
Islands of the Puerto Rico bank and the Virgin Islands; virtually ubiquitous in Puerto Rico; northeastern Dominican Republic (Hispaniola).
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.
Comment
In the Leptodactylus fuscus group of Heyer, 1978, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 29: 1–85. Hedges and Heinicke, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 308–314, supported the synonymy of Leptodactylus dominicensis on the basis of molecular evidence and discussed the biogeography of Leptodactylus albilabris. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as nominal Leptodactylus dominicensism sensu stricto) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 401. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 91–92, summarized the natural history literature. In the Leptodactylus fuscus species group of de Sá, Grant, Camargo, Heyer, Ponssa, and Stanley, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9(Spec. Issue 1): 1–123, and who provided a brief account on p. 24 (adult and larval morphology, identification, advertisement call, and range). Ali and Hedges, 2021, J. Biogeograph., 48: 2699–2707, discussed Antillean biogeography employing this species as one of the exemplars.
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