''Eleutherodactylus wetmorei'' is a species of
frog in the family
Eleutherodactylidae.
Distribution and habitat
It is
endemic to
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...
and occurs in both the
Dominican Republic and
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
. Specifically, it occurs on the
Tiburon Peninsula (Haiti) and east to the
Massif de la Selle in the southwestern Dominican Republic, and on the
Massif du Nord in north-central Haiti east to west-central Dominican Republic.
Its natural
habitat is mesic broadleaf forest.
Behaviour
It is an
arboreal species occurring
bromeliad
The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, ...
s and other plants, and also in leaf axils of bananas plantations. Eggs are laid in bromeliads.
Conservation
It is threatened by
habitat loss caused by logging and agriculture. It is known from several protected areas, but most of them are in need of better management.
References
wetmorei
Endemic fauna of Hispaniola
Amphibians of the Dominican Republic
Amphibians of Haiti
Taxa named by Doris Mable Cochran
Amphibians described in 1932
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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