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Dendropsophus sanborni (Schmidt, 1944)

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

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Hyla sanborni Schmidt, 1944, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 29: 153. Holotype: FMNH 9581, by original designation. Type locality: "Hacienda Alvarez, 15 Km northeast of San Carlos, Uruguay".

Hyla nana sanborni — Barrio, 1967, Physis, Buenos Aires, 26: 521.

Hyla sanborni — Basso, Perí, and di Tada, 1985, Cuad. Herpetol., 1: 1-11.

Dendropsophus sanborni — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 92.

English Names

Sanborn's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Southern Paraguay, central and eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil.

Comment

In the Hyla microcephala group according to Langone and Basso, 1987, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 11: 1-17; and Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 179. Resurrected from the synonymy of Hyla nana by Basso, Perí, and di Tada, 1985, Cuad. Herpetol., 1: 1-11. See Langone and Basso, 1987, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 11: 1-17. See comment under Hyla nana. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 42, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91-92. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 8-9, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Stetson, Benítez, and Pividori, 1996, Cuad. Herpetol., 9: 100-111, provided the first record for Misiones, Argentina. Stetson, 1999, Cuad. Herpetol., 13: 103, provided records for the provinces of Chaco and Formosa, Argentina. Landgref, Godoi, and Souza, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 97, provided a record for Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and briefly commented on the range.

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