Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla spinosa Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 239. Holotype: NHMW 16101, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 6, and Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 19, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 24. Type locality: "Brasilien".

Gastrotheca coronata Stejneger, 1911, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 41: 287. Holotype: USNM 48279, by original designation. Type locality: "Palomo, Valle de Orosi, [Cantón de Paraíso, Provincia] Cartago, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 101, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 195.

Nototrema coronatum — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 324.

Anotheca coronata — Smith, 1939, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 52: 190.

Anotheca spinosa — Duellman, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 195.

English Names

Crowned Hyla (Smith, 1945, Ward’s Nat. Sci. Bull., 1: 3).

Spine-headed Tree Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).

Spinyhead Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16)

Spiny-headed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Coronated Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).

Distribution

Disjunctly in humid forests, primarily in the premontane zone, in eastern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, 800-2068 m), northeastern Honduras (95 m), Atlantic versant Costa Rica and western Panama, and from southwestern Costa Rica to west-central Panama on the Pacific slopes (350-1330 m elevation).

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 145-150, and Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1-127. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 295, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras 241-247. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615.

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