Hyla andersonii Baird, 1854
Hyla andersonii Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 60. Holotype: not stated; USNM 3600 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 51. Type locality: "Anderson, South Carolina", USA; in error according to Neill, 1947, Herpetologica, 4: 75-76; designated as "Aiken County, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69. Neill, 1957, Copeia, 1957: 141, disputed its occurrence at the restricted type locality. See Gosner and Black, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 54: 1, who regarded the type locality as unknown. Brown, 1980, Brimleyana, 3: 113-117, discussed the type locality.
English Names
Anderson's Hyla (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24; Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 131).
Anderson's Tree Toad (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 189).
Anderson Tree Toad (Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 108).
Anderson's Tree Frog (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).
Anderson Tree Frog (Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 33).
Pine Barrens Tree Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).
Pine Barrens Treefrog (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 320; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 11; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 10; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37:6; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 15).
Distribution
Isolated populations on the coastal plain: central New Jersey; central South Carolina to central North Carolina; Pensacola region of western Florida and adjacent Alabama, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Gosner and Black, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 54. See also Karlin, Means, Guttman, and Lambright, 1982, Copeia, 1982: 175-178. In the Hyla eximia group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615.
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