Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla melanargyrea Cope, 1887, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 24: 45. Syntypes: ANSP 11216-18, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351. Type locality: "at or near . . . . Chupada [= Chapada dos Guimarães], thirty miles north-east of Cuyabá, and near the headwaters of the Xingu, an important tributary of the Amazon", Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Hyla marmorata melanargyrea — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 127.

Hyla senicula melanargyrea — Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 89.

Hyla senicula attenuata Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 91. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 101.

Hyla melanargyrea — Caramaschi and Jim, 1983, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 43: 198.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Interior basins of Goiás and Mato Grosso to São Paulo and northeastern Brazil; Surinam and French Guiana; reported in the Departamento de Santa Cruz in Bolivia and the pantanal of northeastern Paraguay (Alto Paraguay province).

Comment

See comment under Hyla senicula. See account by Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 243-254. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 148-149, provided a brief account and photo. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Cacciali and Scott, 2004, Cuad. Herpetol., 18: 73-74, provided a record for Paraguay. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 8, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Silva, Prado, and Rossa-Feres, 2010, Check List, 6: 402-404, provided a range extension to the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and provided a range map. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 120-121.

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