Trachycephalus Tschudi, 1838
Trachycephalus Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 33, 74. Type species: Trachycephalus nigromaculatus Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy.
Phrynohyas Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla zonata Spix, 1824 (= Rana venulosa Laurenti, 1768), by original designation. Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Anonymous, 1958, Opin. Declar. Internatl. Comm. Zool. Nomencl., 19: 172. Synonymy by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 111.
Acrodytes Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla venulosa Daudin, 1802 (= Rana venulosa Laurenti, 1768), by original designation. Name suppressed for purposes of Priority but not Homonymy by Anonymous, 1958, Opin. Declar. Internatl. Comm. Zool. Nomencl., 19: 169.
Scytopis Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 354. Type species: Scytopis hebes Cope, 1862, by monotypy. Synonymy with Acrodytes by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 365. Synonymy with Phrynohyas by Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 4: 11.
Tetraprion Stejneger and Test, 1891, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 14: 167. Type species: Tetraprion jordani Stejneger and Test, 1891, by original designation. Synonymy with Diaglena by Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 456. Synonymy with Trachycephalus by Trueb, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 601.
English Names
Casque-headed Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Marbled Treefrogs (Phrynohyas [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 25).
Golden-eyed Treefrogs (Phrynohyas [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).
Milk Frogs (Phrynohyas [no longer recognized]: Trade name).
Distribution
Lowlands of Mexico, Central and South America east of the Andes, south to northern Argentina and eastern Brazil.
Comment
For review of Trachycephalus prior to the synonymy of Phrynohyas see Trueb, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 546-716. For a review of Phrynohyas genus see Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 4: 1-21. In Lophiohylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 107. Smith, Arif, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2007, Evolution, 61: 2075-2085, and Moen and Wiens, 2009, Evolution, 63: 195-214, recognized the nonmonophyletic Phrynohyas with no comment.
Contained taxa
- Trachycephalus atlas Bokermann, 1966
- Trachycephalus coriaceus (Peters, 1867)
- Trachycephalus dibernardoi Kwet and Solé, 2008
- Trachycephalus hadroceps (Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992)
- Trachycephalus imitatrix (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
- Trachycephalus jordani (Stejneger and Test, 1891)
- Trachycephalus lepidus (Pombal, Haddad, and Cruz, 2003)
- Trachycephalus mambaiensis Cintra, Silva, Silva, Garcia, and Zaher, 2009
- Trachycephalus mesophaeus (Hensel, 1867)
- Trachycephalus nigromaculatus Tschudi, 1838
- Trachycephalus resinifictrix (Goeldi, 1907)
- Trachycephalus typhonius (Linnaeus, 1758)
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