Genus Eleutherodactylus Dumeril and Bibron, 1841 .

Type species: Hylodes martinicensis Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy.

Remarks: After taxonomic rearrangement of Terraranans based on molecular phylogeny by Heinicke et al. (2007) Eleutherodactylus was restricted to the Caribbean clade of direct developing frogs. The only Eleutherodactylus in Venezuela is an introduced but well established species.