Hyla cinerea (Schneider, 1799)
Calamita cinereus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 174. Type(s): Not stated or known to exist. Type locality: Carolina; by implication of statement relating to "Calamita carolinensis"; restricted to "Charleston, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69.
Calamita carolinensis Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 174. Substitute name for Calamita cinereus attributed in error by Schneider to Pennant, 1787, Arctic Zool., 2: 331. See comment.
Hyla lateralis Bosc In Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 2: 21, pl. 5. Types: Not stated, by clearly including frog illustrated in the original. Type locality: "environs de Charlestown [= Charleston]", South Carolina, USA. Synonymy with Calamita cinereus Schneider by Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 16 (but using the name Hyla lateralis). Synonymy by Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 171 (under Calamita lateralis); Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 105.
Rana bilineata Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 136. Holotype: Animal figured by Catesby, 1754, Nat. Hist. Carolina Florida Bahama Is.: pl. 71. Type locality: "warm and temperate parts of North America". Locality of type given as "Virginia and Carolina" by Catesby, 1754, Nat. Hist. Carolina Florida Bahama Is.: pl. 71. Restricted to "Charleston, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 70. Synonymy by Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 171; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 587, and by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 105. Possibly a junior secondary homonym of Hyla bilineata Daudin, 1801 (= Hylarana nicobariensis).
Hyla blochii Daudin, 1802 (An. XI), Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 43. Type(s): Bloch Museum, Berlin (now ZMB); based on the description of the specimen of Bufo cinereus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 174, from "India orientali". Type locality: "India orientali". Synonymy by Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 171.
Calamita lateralis — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 171.
Rana lateralis — Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 14: 453.
Hyla semifasciata Hallowell, 1857 "1856", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 307. Syntypes: ANSP 2024-25, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 352. Type locality: "Texas", USA. Restricted to "vicinity of Houston, Texas", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 70. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 377.
Hyla carolinensis — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 105. See comment.
Hyla carolinensis semifasciata — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 31.
Hyla cinerea cinerea — Garman, 1890, Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., 3: 189.
Hyla cinerea semifasciata — Garman, 1890, Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., 3: 189. Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 397.
Hyla evittata Miller, 1899, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 13: 76. Holotype: USNM 26291, by original designation. Type locality: "Four Mile Run, Alexandria [= Fairfax] County, Virginia", USA. Synonymy by Dunn, 1918, Copeia, 53: 21.
Hyla cinerea evittata — Dunn, 1918, Copeia, 53: 21. Dunn, 1937, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 50: 9-10. Status as a subspecies rejected by Reed, 1956, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 46: 328-332, and Duellman and Schwartz, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 241.
Hyla holmani Lynch, 1966, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 38: 268. Holotype: MU 6581, fragmentary left ilium. Type locality: "Groesbeck Creek Fauna, 5 miles north, 1 to 2 miles west of Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas", USA [Upper Pleistocene]. Considered a likely synonym by Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 118.
English Names
Bilineated Frog (Rana bilineatus [no longer recognized]: Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 136).
Cinereous Frog (Hyla lateralis [no longer recognized]: LeConte, 1855, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 428).
Carolina Hyla (Hyla carolinensis [no longer recognized]: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Hallowell's Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea semifasciata [no longer recognized]: Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 396).
Carolina Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158).
Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea: Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 126; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).
Marsh Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea cinerea: Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).
Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea: 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: 55; 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).
American Green Treefrog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 124).
Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea cinerea [no longer recognized]: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 49; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 58; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).
Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea cinerea [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).
Northern Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea evittata [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).
Miller's Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea evittata [no longer recognized]: Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).
Northern Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea evittata [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176).
Banded Hyla (Hyla carolinensis semifasciata [no longer recognized]: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Distribution
Southeastern USA, from southern Texas east through the coastal plain to Peninsular Florida and Delaware; from East Texas and western Tennessee north in the Mississippi Embayment to southeastern Missouri, central, eastern, and southern Arkansas, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, and extreme southwestern Indiana; introduced into northwestern Puerto Rico.
Comment
In the Hyla cinerea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102. See Duellman and Schwartz, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 241, for discussion. The frequent citation of Calamita carolinensis Pennant, 1792, (e.g., Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 1: 21; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 587; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 377) as an older name for this species is based on ambiguous text by Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 174; the name Calamita carolinensis has never been purposely proposed (DRF) (see also discussion of the error in Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 398, and footnote by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69). Reed, 1956, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 46: 328-332, discussed geographic and population variation. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 178, noted that the introduced population in Puerto Rico may have died out. See also http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/narcam/idguide/hcinerea.htm. See account by Redmer and Brandon, 2003, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 766: 1-14. Killebrew, 1983, Herpetol. Rev., 14: 52, provided a record for west-central Arkansas.
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