Ecnomiohyla minera (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985)
Hyla minera Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985, Herpetologica, 41: 145. Holotype: MVZ 130790, by original designation. Type locality: "4.2 km (by road) S Purulhá, 1760 m elevation, Depto. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala".
Ecnomiohyla minera — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.
English Names
Guatemala Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Cloud forest at elevations of 1490-1830 m in the Sierra de Las Minas in eastern Guatemala and from 630 m in the southern part of the Maya Mountains in Belize.
Comment
Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 83, suggested that Hyla minera was a synonym of Hyla valancifer; subsequently Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 250-256, suggested that Hyla minera and Hyla valancifer were sister species on either side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In the Hyla miliaria group; see Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 893-895, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 97-100, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 105-107 (as Hyla valancifer) for account. See comments by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 279-280, on the controversy surrounding the distinctiveness of this taxon from Hyla valancifer. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 245.
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