Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla ebraccata Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 69. Holotype: ANSP 2079, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 350. Type locality: "region of Nicaragua". Dunn and Stuart, 1951, Copeia, 1951: 58, noted that the data associated with the type is "Machuca", Zelaya Province, Nicaragua, and that the collection surely came from Nicaragua along the San Juan River.

Hyla weyerae Taylor, 1954, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 36: 633. Holotype: KU 34850, by original designation. Type locality: "Esquinas Forest Preserve at Las Esquinas, between Palmar and Golfito, [Cantón de Osa,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 91, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 267.

Dendropsophus ebraccatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91.

English Names

Hourglass Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 91; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 77; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 96; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).

Distribution

Low elevations on the Atlantic slope from southern Veracruz and northern Oaxaca eastward to Belize, and from Nicaragua to Costa Rica and Colombia on both Atlantic and Pacific slopes, south to northwestern Ecuador; and apparently isolated population in central Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Comment

For accounts see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 227-234; Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 14-16; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 91-92; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 77-78, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 96-97. Considered a synonym of Hyla leucophyllata by Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 406. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 313-314 (who placed this species in his Hyla leucophyllata group, Hyla leucophyllata subgroup) and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 262-264. In the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. Robertson, Duryea, and Zamudio, 2009, Mol. Ecol., 18: 1375-1395, discussed phylogeographic patterns in Costa Rica. Ohmer, Robertson, and Zamudio, 2009, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 97: 298-313, reported on geographic variation in body size, color pattern, and advertisement call that were discordant with phylogenetic pattern. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.

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