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Aplastodiscus musicus (Lutz, 1949)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Aplastodiscus

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Hyla musica Lutz, 1949 "1948", Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 46: 565. Syntypes: MNRJ 3203-19. Type locality: "fica a margem do km. 4.5 da trilha ao Campo das Antas no Parque Nacional Serra dos Orgăos, em Terezópolis, a 1200 km. [Sic] de altitude e 22° 26′ 14″ de Lat. Sul.", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Also given in English as "The Organ Mountains National Park at Theresópolis. Alt. 1200 ms. Above sea level at km. 4.5 of the trail to the top of the Range; 22° 26′ 14″ Lat. S.", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Aplastodiscus musicus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 82.

Boana musica — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.

English Names

Musical Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Distribution

Serra dos Órgăos, southeastern Brazil.

Comment

See Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 170. In the Hyla albomarginata group, according to Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 240. In the more exclusive Hyla albofrenata subgroup according to Cruz and Peixoto, 1987 "1985", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 8: 66-70. In the Aplastodiscus albofrenatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 82.

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