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Greenhouse Frog
Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Cope, 1862)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Cuba and the Isla de Juventud, Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, and Little Bahama Bank. It is established in southern Alabama (Carey, 1982, Herpetological Review 13: 130; Kraus, 2009, Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany), Florida (Cope, 1863, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15: 43–54; Neil, 1951, The Florida Naturalist 24: 61–66; Dalrymple, 1994, Non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles. Pages in 72–86, An assessment of invasive non-indigenous species in Florida's public land. Technical Report No. TSs-94–100. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida; Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64), southern Georgia (Jensen, 2008, Greenhouse Frog. Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris. Pages 92–93 in Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens), Hawai'i (Kraus et al., 1999, Herpetological Review 30: 21–25; Kraus and Campbell, 2002, Biological Invasions 4: 327–332), southern Louisiana (Dundee and Rossman, 1989, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Boundy and Carr, 2017, Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana: An Identification and Reference Guide Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Mississippi (Dinsmore, 2004, Herpetological Review 35: 403), southern South Carolina (Dillman and Gibbons, 2016, Herpetological Review 47: 76–77), and southeastern Texas (Simpson et al., 2019, Herpetological Review 50: 96). Powell et al. (2016, Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston) used the English name, Cuban Flat-headed Frog.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Ricord's Frog (Eleutherodactylus ricordii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Cricket-toad (Eleutherodactylus ricordii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Greenhouse Frog (Eleutherodactylus ricordi planirostris: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1862 Cope, Edward D. On some new and little known American Anura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 14():151-159
1863 Cope, Edward D. On Trachycephalus and Scaphiopus and other batrachia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 15():43-54
1951 Neill, Wilfred T. Florida’s air-plants and their inhabitants. The Florida Naturalist 24(3):61-66
1982 Carey, S. D. Geographic distribution: Eleutherodactylus planirostris planirostris (Greenhouse Frog). Herpetological Review 13(4):130
1989 Dundee, Harold A., and Douglas A. Rossman. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 300pp.
1994 Dalrymple, George H. Non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles. Pages 67–78 in An assessment of invasive non-indigenous species in Florida's public land. Technical Report No. TSS-94-100. 78 pp. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Florida. pp.
1999 Kraus, Fred, Earl W. Campbell, Allen Allison, and Thane Pratt. Eleutherodactylus frog introductions to Hawaii. Herpetological Review 30(1):21-25
2002 Kraus, Fred R. and E. W. Campbell III. Human-mediated escalation of a formerly eradicable problem: The invasion of Caribbean frogs in the Hawaiian Islands. Biological Invasions 4(3):327-332
2004 Dinsmore, A. Geographic distribution: Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Greenhouse Frog). Herpetological Review 35(4):403
2008 Jensen, John B. Greenhouse frog. Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) planirostris. Pages 92-93. in John B. Jensen, C. D. Camp, [G.] Whit Gibbons, and M. J. Elliott (editors). Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 575 pp. , . pp.
2009 Kraus, Fred. Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany. 563pp.
2011 Krysko, Kenneth L., Joseph P. Burgess, Michael R. Rochford, Christopher R. Gillette, Daniel Cueva, Kevin M. Enge, Louis A. Somma, Jennifer L. Stabile, Dustin C. Smith, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Guy N. Kieckhefer III, Michael C. Granatosky & Stuart V. Nielsen. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028(1):1-64
2016 Powell, Robert, Roger Conant, and Joseph T. Collins. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston. 494pp.
2016 Dillman, J. W. and P. W. Gibbons. Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Greenhouse Frog). Herpetological Review 47(1):76-77
2017 Boundy, Jeff and John L. Carr. Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana: An Identification and Reference Guide Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 488pp.
2019 Simpson, S. E., P. S. Crump, Toby J. Hibbitts. Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Greenhouse Frog) Herpetological Review 50(1):96
2022 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., R. Bruce Bury, Suzanne L. Collins, and Malcolm L. McCallum. Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of the United States. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 245pp.

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