Eleutherodactylus thorectes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Brachycephaloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura Superfamilia: Brachycephaloidea

Familia: Eleutherodactylidae
Subfamilia: Eleutherodactylinae
Genus: Eleutherodactylus
Subgenus: Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas)
Species: Eleutherodactylus thorectes

Name

Eleutherodactylus thorectes Hedges, 1988: 636

• Holotype: FSM 64545, adult ♀, collected by R. Franz on 6-7 February 1984.
• Type locality: “the crest and peak of Morne Macay, Dépt. du Sud, Haiti (18°22′53″N, 74°01′29″W), 2200-2340 m”.

Combinations

• Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) thorectes — Hedges, 1989: 322 [subsequent combination, subgenus]
• Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) thorectes — Lynch & Duellman, 1997: 233 [subsequent combination, subgenus]
• Euhyas thorectes — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006: 361 [subsequent combination]
• Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) thorectes — Heinicke, Duellman & Hedges, 2007: table 2 [subsequent combination, restored]

References

Primary references

• Hedges, S.B. 1988. A new diminutive frog from Hispaniola (Leptodactylidae, Eleutherodactylus). Copeia 1988(3): 636–641. DOI: 10.2307/1445381 Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page. 
• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E. & Hedges, S.B. 2007. Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(24): 10092–10097. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611051104 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2022. IUCN: Eleutherodactylus thorectes  (Critically Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T57004A3054028. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T57004A3054028.en. Accessed on 06 April 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Macaya Breast-spotted Frog