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Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882)

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

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Hyla tuberculosa Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 355. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.13.34 (formerly 80.12.5.172) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 95; presumably this is the animal figured in plate 24, fig. 1 of the original publication. Type locality: "Canelos", Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador.

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

English Names

Canelos Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin in western Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Comment

See Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 1-27. Savage and Kubicki, 2010, Zootaxa, 2719: 22, regarded the assignment of this species to Ecnomiohyla as problematic as it lacks the morphological synapmorphies they associate with application of the generic name.

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