Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 272. Holotype: USNM 14193 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 62. Type locality: "Nicaragua".

Hyla miliaria — Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Part 164: 283. Taylor, 1949, Am. Mus. Novit., 1437: 1-21.

Plectrohyla miliaria — Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 596.

Hyla immensa Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 815. Holotype: KU 30404, by original designation. Type locality: "Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, [2 km east of] Turrialba, [Provincia Cartago,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 94, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 352.

Ecnomiohyla miliaria — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

English Names

Cope's Brown Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Distribution

Humid lowlands and premontane slopes from eastern Honduras and southeastern Nicaragua to southeastern Costa Rica on the Atlantic versant (20-900 m) and on the Pacific versant in humid premontane areas of southwestern Costa Rica and western Panama, 1000-1300 m elevation.

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 352-355; Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 899-901; Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 334-335. Köhler, 1999, Cour. Forschungsinst. Senckenb., 213: 21, reported the species for Nicaragua. McCranie, Townsend, and Wilson, 2003, Caribb. J. Sci., 39: 398-399, reported the species in Honduras. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 245. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.

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