Phyllomedusa Wagler, 1830
Phyllomedusa Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201. Type species: Rana bicolor Boddaert, 1772, by monotypy.
Pithecopus Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 86. Type species: Phyllomedusa azurea Cope, 1862 (= Hyla hypocondrialis Daudin, 1802), by original designation. Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 83, and Duellman, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 6.
Bradymedusa Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 104. Type species: Bradymedusa moschata Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (= Phyllomedusa rohdei), by subsequent designation of Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 18. Synonymy by Mertens, 1926, Senckenb. Biol., 8: 137-155.
English Names
Leaf Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).
Monkey Frogs (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 190).
Distribution
Panama, Pacific slopes of Colombia, and South America east of the Andes, including Trinidad, southward to northern Argentina and Uruguay.
Comment
Although species groups have not been defined for all species, Cannatella, 1982, Copeia, 1982: 501-513, discussed and defined the Phyllomedusa perinesos group. Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117-118, defined four species groups (noted in the species records), but left several species unassigned. Caramaschi, 2006, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 64: 159-179, discussed and delimited the Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis group. Barrio-Amorós, 2006, Zootaxa, 1309: 55-68, formalized the Phyllomedusa tarsius group, previous recognized informally by De la Riva, 1999, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 13: 123-131. Paiva, Nascimento, Silva, Bernarde, and Ananias, 2010, Ital. J. Zool., 77: 116-121, reported on karyological variation within Phyllomedusa. Brunes, Sequeira, Haddad, and Alexandrino, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 57: 1120-1133, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the Phyllomedusa burmeisteri group.
Contained taxa
- Phyllomedusa atelopoides Duellman, Cadle, and Cannatella, 1988
- Phyllomedusa ayeaye (Lutz, 1966)
- Phyllomedusa azurea Cope, 1862
- Phyllomedusa bahiana Lutz, 1925
- Phyllomedusa baltea Duellman and Toft, 1979
- Phyllomedusa bicolor (Boddaert, 1772)
- Phyllomedusa boliviana Boulenger, 1902
- Phyllomedusa burmeisteri Boulenger, 1882
- Phyllomedusa camba De la Riva, 1999
- Phyllomedusa centralis Bokermann, 1965
- Phyllomedusa coelestis (Cope, 1874)
- Phyllomedusa distincta Lutz, 1950
- Phyllomedusa duellmani Cannatella, 1982
- Phyllomedusa ecuatoriana Cannatella, 1982
- Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (Daudin, 1800)
- Phyllomedusa iheringii Boulenger, 1885
- Phyllomedusa megacephala (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
- Phyllomedusa neildi Barrio-Amorós, 2006
- Phyllomedusa nordestina Caramaschi, 2006
- Phyllomedusa oreades Brandão, 2002
- Phyllomedusa palliata Peters, 1873
- Phyllomedusa perinesos Duellman, 1973
- Phyllomedusa rohdei Mertens, 1926
- Phyllomedusa sauvagii Boulenger, 1882
- Phyllomedusa tarsius (Cope, 1868)
- Phyllomedusa tetraploidea Pombal and Haddad, 1992
- Phyllomedusa tomopterna (Cope, 1868)
- Phyllomedusa trinitatis Mertens, 1926
- Phyllomedusa vaillantii Boulenger, 1882
- Phyllomedusa venusta Duellman and Trueb, 1967
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