Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993
Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993 "1992", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 52: 213. Type species: Hyla rodriguezi Rivero, 1968, by original designation.
English Names
Amazon Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Tepui Treefrogs (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 200-202).
Distribution
Mountains of eastern and southeastern Venezuela and adjacent Guyana; likely in adjacent Brazil.
Comment
This genus conforms to the Osteocephalus rodriguezi group as discussed by Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993 "1992", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 52: 113-142, who discussed the group (as the Osteocephalus rodriguezi group) in the Venezuelan Guyana region, named five new species, and provided a key. In Lophiohylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 107-108. Myers and Stothers, 2006, Arch. Nat. Hist., London, 33: 241-266, discussed why the gender of this generic name must be considered feminine in spite of the stated intention of the original authors. Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Curr. Biol., 22: R589-R590, provided a molecular tree of species.
Contained taxa
- Tepuihyla aecii Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993
- Tepuihyla celsae Mijares-Urrutia, Manzanilla, and La Marca, 1999
- Tepuihyla edelcae (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993)
- Tepuihyla galani Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993
- Tepuihyla luteolabris Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993
- Tepuihyla rimarum Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993
- Tepuihyla rodriguezi (Rivero, 1968)
- Tepuihyla talbergae Duellman and Yoshpa, 1996
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