Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Bufo marmoratus Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 29. Type(s): By indication frog(s) illustrated as Rana surinamensis by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1: pl. 71, figs. 4, 5. Type locality: "Surinami".

Buffo marmoratus — Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, 16mo ed., 2: 375, 461. Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, Quarto ed., 1: table after page 618, and referencing account on page 607. Rejected as a nonbinominal work by Opinion 2104, Anonymous, 2005, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 62: 55.

Hyla marmorata — Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 2: 23. Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 184; Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 34.

Calamita marmoratus — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 174.

Lophopus marmoratus — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 73.

Hyla (Lophopus) marmorata — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.

Hyla marmorata marmorata — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 126.

Quinzhyla marmorata — Bauer, 2005, in Ananjeva and Tsinenko (eds.), Herpetol. Petropolitana: 15.

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

English Names

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

Marbled Toad (Lacépède, 1802, Nat. Hist. Ovip. Quadruped. (Kerr transl.): 318).

Distribution

Amazon Basin in Brazil (Rondônia, Pará, and Mato Grosso), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia; southern Venezuela; Guianas.

Comment

For account see Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 243-254. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 146-147, provided a brief account and photo. First record for Bolivia by Köhler, 1995, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 17: 6. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 159-160, provided an account. Gomes and Peixoto, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 445, provided a record from Mato Grosso, Brazil, and commented on the Brazilian component of the range. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 118-119.

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