Hyla Laurenti, 1768

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

Ranetta Garsault, 1764, Fig. Plantes et Animaux: pl. 672. Type species: Rana arborea Linnaeus, 1758, by indication according to Welter-Schultes and Klug, 2009, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 66: 235, who made the synonymy. This type species formally designated by Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 28. Nomen oblitum. See discussion by Welter-Schultes and Klug, 2011, Zootaxa, 2814: 50-58.

Ranella — Garsault, 1764, Fig. Plantes et Animaux: pl. 414. Incorrect original spelling of Ranetta. See also comments by Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 28.

Hyla Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 32. Type species: Hyla viridis Laurenti, 1768 (= Rana arborea Linnaeus, 1758), by subsequent designation of Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 75.

Calamita Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 151. Type species: Rana arborea Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 75. Synonymy by Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 14; Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 169; Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., London, Ser. 2, 10: 213; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 542; Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 105.

Hylaria Rafinesque, 1814, Specchio Sci., 2, 2: 103. Substitute name for Hyla.

Hyas Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201. Type species: Rana arborea Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy. Primary homonym of Hyas Leach, 1815 = Crustacea. Synonymy by Wiegmann, 1832, in Wiegmann and Ruthe (eds.), Handbuch der Zool., Amph.: 201; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 542; Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 105; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337.

Dendrohyas Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 349. Substitute name for Hyas Wagler, 1830. Synonymy with Hyla by Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 404; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 542.

Dryophytes Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Type species: Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825, by original designation. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 373.

Epedaphus Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383. Type species: Hyla gratiosa LeConte, 1856, by monotypy. Synonymy by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 149.

English Names

True Tree Toads (Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 104).

Common Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Treefrogs (Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9).

Holarctic Treefrogs (Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 5; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 15).

Distribution

Central and southern Europe; eastern Asia; northwestern Africa; and North America.

Comment

Until partitioned by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294, "Hyla" was considered to be a paraphyletic group that included most hylines. Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102, recognized four species groups identified in the species accounts. The content of the Hyla arborea group includes some species which were retained by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102, in that group because no evidence excluded them; nevertheless, all members of the Hyla arborea group in China and Far East Russia are suspected on geographic grounds to be members of the Hyla eximia group, as originally suggested by Kuramoto, 1980, Copeia, 1980: 100-108. Zhang, 2002, Sichuan J. Zool., 21: 198-199, provided a key to the species of China. Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 32, provided the etymology of the name that documents its masculine gender. Stöck, Dubey, Klütsch, Litvinchuk, Scheidt, and Perrin, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 1019-1024, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of members of the Hyla arborea group of Europe and North Africa. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 590-653, provided a key, accounts, and spot maps of the Chinese taxa. Hua, Fu, Li, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 246-259, discussed molecular phylogeny of Hyla. Gvoždík, Moravec, Klütsch, and Kotlík, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 1146-58, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the species of the Levant and Arabia. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 49-51, provided a key to the species of the United States and Canada. Stöck, Dufresnes, Litvinchuk, Lymberakis, Biollay, Berroneau, Borzée, Ghali, Ogielska, and Perrin, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 1-9, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Hyla arborea group.

Contained taxa

Hyla andersonii Baird, 1854
Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870)
Hyla arborea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hyla arboricola Taylor, 1941
Hyla arenicolor Cope, 1866
Hyla avivoca Viosca, 1928
Hyla bocourti Mocquard, 1899
Hyla chinensis Günther, 1858
Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, 1880
Hyla cinerea (Schneider, 1799)
Hyla euphorbiacea Günther, 1858
Hyla eximia Baird, 1854
Hyla felixarabica Gvoždík, Kotlík, and Moravec, 2010
Hyla femoralis Bosc, 1800
Hyla gratiosa LeConte, 1856
Hyla hallowellii Thompson, 1912
Hyla heinzsteinitzi Grach, Plesser, and Werner, 2007
Hyla immaculata Boettger, 1888
Hyla intermedia Boulenger, 1882
Hyla japonica Günther, 1859
Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874
Hyla molleri Bedriaga, 1890
Hyla orientalis Bedriaga, 1890
Hyla plicata Brocchi, 1877
Hyla sanchiangensis Pope, 1929
Hyla sarda (De Betta, 1853)
Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827
Hyla simplex Boettger, 1901
Hyla squirella Bosc, 1800
Hyla suweonensis Kuramoto, 1980
Hyla tsinlingensis Liu and Hu, 1966
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825
Hyla walkeri Stuart, 1954
Hyla wrightorum Taylor, 1939
Hyla zhaopingensis Tang and Zhang, 1984

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