Hypsiboas Wagler, 1830

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Hypsiboas

Boana Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., London, Ser. 2, 10: 214. Type species: Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy. Coined as a synonym of Hyla and never used subsequently as an nonsynonymous name rendering it a nomen oblitum.

Hypsiboas Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 200. Type species: Hyla palmata Daudin, 1802 (= Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758), by subsequent designation by implication of Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24 (not monotypy as stated by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24).

Auletris Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201. Type species: Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 75. Synonymy with Hyla by Wiegmann, 1832, in Wiegmann and Ruthe (eds.), Handbuch der Zool., Amph.: 201; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 542; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Lobipes Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla palmata Daudin, 1801 (= Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758), by original designation. Synonymy with Hyla by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 131.

Hypsipsophus Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla xerophilla Duméril and Bibron, 1841 (= Hyla crepitans Wied, 1824), by original designation. Synonymy with Hyla by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 93.

Phyllobius Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla albomarginata Spix, 1824, by original designation. Primary homonym of Phyllobius Schoenherr, 1824 = Coleoptera. Synonymy with Hyla by Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 57.

Centrotelma Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 97. Type species: Hyla infulata Wied, 1824 (= Hyla albomarginata Spix, 1824); by implication of Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24 (not monotypy as stated by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24). Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Hylomedusa Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 102. Type species: Hyla crepitans Wied, 1825, by subsequent designation by implication of Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24 (not monotypy as stated by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 24). Synonymy with Hyla by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Cinclidium Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 200. Type species: Cinclidium granulatum Cope, 1867 (= Rana boans Linnaeus, 1758), by monotypy. Primary homonym of Cinclidium Blyth, 1842 = Aves. Synonymy with Hyla by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Cophomantis Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 650. Type species: Cophomantis punctillata Peters, 1870 (= Hyla geographica Spix, 1824), by monotypy. Synonymy with Hyla by Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Cincloscopus Cope, 1871 "1870", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 554. Replacement name for Cinclidium Cope, 1867.

Incertae Sedis

Hyla palliata Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 47. Holotype: Formerly Smithsonian Museum (USNM) 6225, by original designation; now lost according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 81. Type locality: "Paraguay". COMMENT: This name has not been assigned to any known species (W. E. Duellman in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 145). Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 24, briefly discussed that this name could apply to any number of species of Hypsiboas.

Hypsiboas hypselops Cope, 1871 "1870", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 554. Type(s): Not stated, presumably originally in ANSP or USNM or possibly in the Philadelphia Museum. Type locality: "Pebas, Equador", Departamento Loreto, Peru. * Hyla hypselops— Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 353. ENGLISH NAME(S): Pebas Treefrog ( Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55). DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality (Pebas) in northeastern Peru. COMMENT: Name not associated with any known species (W.E. Duellman in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 137). Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 354, stated that the species is distinguished from Hyla crepitans by its acuminate snout, larger eye, and anterior femoral bands and on that basis is here considered a nomen dubium, likely based on some species of Hypsiboas.

English Names

Gladiator Frogs (Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 303).

Wagler Neotropical Treefrogs (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 162).

Distribution

Tropical Central and South American from Nicaragua to Argentina; Trinidad and Tobago.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hyla by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85, where it had been placed by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 542; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337. Within Hypsiboas, Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 75, placed Hypsiboas within Cophomantini and recognized the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group, Hypsiboas benitezi group, Hypsiboas faber group, Hypsiboas pellucens group, Hypsiboas pulchellus group, Hypsiboas punctatus group, and Hypsiboas semilineatus group. Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 938-950, provided a phylogenetic analysis of molecular characters of the Hyla pulchella group, showing that the Hyla polytaenia group is imbedded within it. For this reason they considered the Hyla polytaenia group to be part of the Hyla pulchella group. Cruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 1-19, restricted the Hyla polytaenia group (and transferred other former members to the Hyla pulchella group) and provided accounts for its members. Savage, 2002, Copeia, 2002: 546, recommended recognition of Dendropsophus for the 2N = 30 "Hylas" and Boana for the Hyla boans group. Garcia, Vinciprova, and Haddad, 2003, Herpetologica, 59: 360, disputed the unification of the Hyla pulchella and Hyla circumdata groups as proposed by Napoli in an unpublished dissertation, as did Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 938-950. Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 1-41, provided a discussion of the Andean species (as Hyla). Pyburn and Hall, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 366-372, supplied a key to species of the former Hyla geographica group. Antunes, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2008, Copeia, 2008: 170-190, provided a phylogenetic tree for the Hypsiboas pulchellus group and suggested that the Hypsiboas polytaenius clade is not monophyletic. Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010, Zool. Scripta, 39: 572-590, reported on the phylogenetics of the Hypsiboas pulchellus group. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that the Hypsiboas punctatus group and Hypsiboas benitezi group are not monophyletic (but see comment under Hylinae). Funk, Caminer, and Ron, 2011, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 279: 1806-1814, suggested they had discovered 7 unnamed species in Amazonian Ecuador and adjacent Peru, as well as Surinam and French Guiana on the basis of molecular markers, morphology, and acoustic data.

Contained taxa

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