Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla femoralis Bosc In Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 1: 10, pl. 5. Type(s): Not designated, although presumably originally in MNHNP, and obviously including the animal figured in the original and by Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 18, pl. 3, fig. 1. Type locality: "La Caroline"; restricted to "Charleston, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 72.

Calamita femoralis — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 171.

Auletris femoralis — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.

Hyla femoralis femoralis — Cope, 1880, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 17: 29.

Hyla femoralis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 398.

English Names

Femoral Hyla (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).

Hyla of the Pine Woods (Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 150).

Pine Wood's Tree Frog (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158; Wright, 1932, Life Hist. Frogs Okefinokee Swamp, 2: 14).

Piney Wood Tree Frog (Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).

Pine Tree Frog (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Piny Woods Tree Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71).

Pine-Woods Tree-frog (Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 60).

Pine Woods 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: 322; 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).

Distribution

Southeastern USA (Atlantic Coastal Plain from southeastern Virginia to southeastern Louisiana).

Comment

Unnassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102. Reviewed by Hoffman, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 436: 1-3. Boundy and Shively, 1994, Herpetol. Rev., 25: 160, provided a record for East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, probably the western-most locality.

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