Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Gastrotheca Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: Hyla marsupiata Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by original designation.

Notodelphys Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1854: 373. Type species: Notodelphys ovifera Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854, by monotypy. Junior homonym of Notodelphys Allman, 1847 (Crustacea). Also named by Weinland, 1854, Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med., 1854: 473. Synonymy with Nototrema by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 416.

Nototrema Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 115. Substitute name for Gastrotheca Fitzinger, 1843. Synonymy with Gastrotheca (under Nototrema) by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 416.

Opisthodelphys Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 117. Replacement name for Notodelphys Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854. Synonymy with Nototrema by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 416. Considered a subgenus of Gastrotheca by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 30.

Opisthodelphis — Brocchi, 1881, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 1): 46. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 113. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Opisthodelphys Günther, 1859 "1858".

Amphignathodon Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 450. Type species: Amphignathodon guentheri Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543.

Duellmania Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 32. Type species: Hyla argenteovirens Boettger, 1892, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Gastrotheca.

English Names

Marsupial Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Costa Rica and Panama, northern and western South America southward to northern Argentina; eastern and southeastern Brazil.

Comment

Various taxa were named and species groups were defined by Duellman and Fritts, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 9: 1-37; Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 22: 1-27; and Duellman, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 868-874. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 29-33, recognized three subgenera: Duellmania Dubois, 1987; Gastrotheca Fitzinger, 1843; and Opisthodelphys Günther, 1859, and a system of species groups and subgroups, seemingly independent of recovered evolutionary history. Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543, discussed evolution within the genus and diagnosed the species groups noted in the accounts. Sachsse, Izecksohn, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 401-406, rejected Opisthodelphys as diagnosed solely by symplesiomorphies. Duellman and Venegas, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 295-307, provided a key and map for the species of northern Peru. Wiens, Kuczynski, Duellman, and Reeder, 2007, Evolution, 61: 1886-1899, reported on phylogenetics within Gastrotheca.

Contained taxa

• Gastrotheca abdita Duellman, 1987
• Gastrotheca albolineata (Lutz and Lutz, 1939)
• Gastrotheca andaquiensis Ruiz-Carranza and Hernández-Camacho, 1976
• Gastrotheca angustifrons (Boulenger, 1898)
• Gastrotheca antomia Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, Lynch, and Restrepo-Toro, 1997
• Gastrotheca antoniiochoai (De la Riva and Chaparro, 2005)
• Gastrotheca argenteovirens (Boettger, 1892)
• Gastrotheca atympana Duellman, Lehr, Rodríguez, and von May, 2004
• Gastrotheca aureomaculata Cochran and Goin, 1970
• Gastrotheca bufona Cochran and Goin, 1970
• Gastrotheca carinaceps Duellman, Trueb, and Lehr, 2006
• Gastrotheca christiani Laurent, 1967
• Gastrotheca chrysosticta Laurent, 1976
• Gastrotheca cornuta (Boulenger, 1898)
• Gastrotheca dendronastes Duellman, 1983
• Gastrotheca dunni Lutz, 1977
• Gastrotheca ernestoi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920
• Gastrotheca espeletia Duellman and Hillis, 1987
• Gastrotheca excubitor Duellman and Fritts, 1972
• Gastrotheca fissipes (Boulenger, 1888)
• Gastrotheca flamma Juncá and Nunes, 2008
• Gastrotheca fulvorufa (Andersson, 1911)
• Gastrotheca galeata Trueb and Duellman, 1978
• Gastrotheca gracilis Laurent, 1969
• Gastrotheca griswoldi Shreve, 1941
• Gastrotheca guentheri (Boulenger, 1882)
• Gastrotheca helenae Dunn, 1944
• Gastrotheca lateonota Duellman and Trueb, 1988
• Gastrotheca lauzuricae De la Riva, 1992
• Gastrotheca litonedis Duellman and Hillis, 1987
• Gastrotheca longipes (Boulenger, 1882)
• Gastrotheca marsupiata (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
• Gastrotheca megacephala Izecksohn, Carvalho-e-Silva, and Peixoto, 2009
• Gastrotheca microdiscus (Andersson, 1910)
• Gastrotheca monticola Barbour and Noble, 1920
• Gastrotheca nebulanastes Duellman, Catenazzi, and Blackburn, 2011
• Gastrotheca nicefori Gaige, 1933
• Gastrotheca ochoai Duellman and Fritts, 1972
• Gastrotheca orophylax Duellman and Pyles, 1980
• Gastrotheca ossilaginis Duellman and Venegas, 2005
• Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854)
• Gastrotheca pacchamama Duellman, 1987
• Gastrotheca pachachacae Catenazzi and von May, 2011
• Gastrotheca peruana (Boulenger, 1900)
• Gastrotheca phalarosa Duellman and Venegas, 2005
• Gastrotheca phelloderma Lehr and Catenazzi, 2011
• Gastrotheca piperata Duellman and Köhler, 2005
• Gastrotheca plumbea (Boulenger, 1882)
• Gastrotheca prasina Teixeira, Vechio, Recoder, Carnaval, Strangas, Damasceno, Sena, and Rodrigues, 2012
• Gastrotheca pseustes Duellman and Hillis, 1987
• Gastrotheca psychrophila Duellman, 1974
• Gastrotheca pulchra Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007
• Gastrotheca rebeccae Duellman and Trueb, 1988
• Gastrotheca recava Teixeira, Vechio, Recoder, Carnaval, Strangas, Damasceno, Sena, and Rodrigues, 2012
• Gastrotheca riobambae (Fowler, 1913)
• Gastrotheca ruizi Duellman and Burrowes, 1986
• Gastrotheca splendens (Schmidt, 1857)
• Gastrotheca stictopleura Duellman, Lehr, and Aguilar, 2001
• Gastrotheca testudinea (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870)
• Gastrotheca trachyceps Duellman, 1987
• Gastrotheca walkeri Duellman, 1980
• Gastrotheca weinlandii (Steindachner, 1892)
• Gastrotheca williamsoni Gaige, 1922
• Gastrotheca zeugocystis Duellman, Lehr, Rodríguez, and von May, 2004

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