Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826
Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 38. Type species: Hylodes gravenhorstii Fitzinger, 1826 (nomen nudum) and Hyla ranoides Spix, 1824 (= Hyla nasus Lichtenstein, 1823); Hyla ranoides Spix, 1824, by monotypy.
Enydrobius Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 202. Substitute name for Hylodes Fitzinger, 1826.
Elosia Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 36, 77. Type species: Elosia nasuta Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy. Synonymy by Steindachner, 1865, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 15: 499; Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 195-202.
Scinacodes Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32. Type species: Hyla nasus Lichtenstein, 1823, by original designation. Synonymy by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 280.
Elesia — Brazil and Vellard, 1926, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 3: 43. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Tree Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).
Torrent Frogs (Lingnau, Canedo, and Pombal, 2008, Copeia, 2008: 595).
Distribution
High-gradient streams in Atlantic forests in the state of Espirito Santo south through Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to Rio Grando do Sul, in southern Brazil.
Comment
Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 195-202, reviewed the nomenclatural history of Hylodes; his opinion was followed by Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 1-238. See Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 36-38, for discussion of the type localities of the Brazilian forms under Elosia. Heyer, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 377-385, defined the species groups noted in the species accounts. Heyer and Cocroft, 1986, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 99: 100-109, discussed the Hylodes lateristrigatus group. Pavan, Narvaes, and Rodrigues, 2001, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 41: 407-425, discussed the similarity groups of species and phylogeny within the genus. Nascimento, Pombal, and Haddad, 2001, J. Zool., London, 254: 421-428, also summarized the species groups. Pavan, Narvaes, and Rodrigues, 2001, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 41: 407-425, suggested that the Hylodes asper group is paraphyletic. Nuin and Val, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 139-147, provided evidence for the monophyly of Hylodes. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, suggested that Hylodes is paraphyletic with respect to Megaelosia.
Contained taxa
- Hylodes amnicola Pombal, Feio, and Haddad, 2002
- Hylodes asper (Müller, 1924)
- Hylodes babax Heyer, 1982
- Hylodes cardosoi Lingnau, Canedo, and Pombal, 2008
- Hylodes charadranaetes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986
- Hylodes dactylocinus Pavan, Narvaes, and Rodrigues, 2001
- Hylodes fredi Canedo and Pombal, 2007
- Hylodes glaber (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
- Hylodes heyeri Haddad, Pombal, and Bastos, 1996
- Hylodes lateristrigatus (Baumann, 1912)
- Hylodes magalhaesi (Bokermann, 1964)
- Hylodes meridionalis (Mertens, 1927)
- Hylodes mertensi (Bokermann, 1956)
- Hylodes nasus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
- Hylodes ornatus (Bokermann, 1967)
- Hylodes otavioi Sazima and Bokermann, 1983
- Hylodes perere Silva and Benmaman, 2008
- Hylodes perplicatus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
- Hylodes phyllodes Heyer and Cocroft, 1986
- Hylodes pipilans Canedo and Pombal, 2007
- Hylodes regius Gouvêa, 1979
- Hylodes sazimai Haddad and Pombal, 1995
- Hylodes uai Nascimento, Pombal, and Haddad, 2001
- Hylodes vanzolinii Heyer, 1982
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