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Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Hemiphractus

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Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1862: 149. Holotype: ZSM 36/0, according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 41, and Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 172. Type locality: "Pastassa-Thal [Pastaza Valley], an der Ostseite der Anden in Ecuador", in error according to Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 28.

Ceratohyla fasciata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 454.

Cerathyla panamensis Stejneger, 1917, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 30: 31. Holotype: USNM 55320, by original designation. Type locality: "Signal Loma (Loma Peak) on the north cost of Panama three miles south of San[ta] Isabel", Provincia Colón, Panama. Synonymy by Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 28.

Hemiphractus panamensis — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 19. by implication; Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 140.

Hemiphractus fasciatus — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 19. by implication; Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 28.

English Names

Banded Horned Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Central and eastern mountains of Panama, and Pacific slopes of Colombia (Antioquia and Cauca, 300-1600 m elevation) and northwestern Ecuador (south to Pichincha Province).

Comment

See account (as Hemiphractus panamensis) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 140-144, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 949. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 622.

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