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Dendropsophus gaucheri (Lescure and Marty, 2000)

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

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Hyla gaucheri Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 14. Holotype: MNHNP 1999.8621, by original designation. Type locality: "Sinnamary", French Guiana.

Dendropsophus gaucheri — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Sinnamary, French Guiana) and northeastern Surinam.

Comment

In the Hyla luteoocellata group according to the original publication; in the Hyla parviceps group by implication (DRF). See comment under Hyla luteoocellata. In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. Fouquet, Noonan, Blanc, and Orrico, 2011, Zootaxa, 3035: 59-67, provided molecular evidence that this species is in the Dendropsophus microcephalus group. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 114-117.

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