Hyla gratiosa LeConte, 1856
Hyla gratiosa LeConte, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 146. Syntypes: Three specimens noted in description, of which ANSP 2089 was recorded as "holotype" by Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351, rendering a lectotype designation by implication. Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 54, noted USNM 5901 (6 specimens) as syntypes. The status of type(s) is confusing, see Caldwell, 1982, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 298: 1, for discussion. Type locality: "lower country of Georgia", considered by Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 35, to be "evidently one of the LeConte plantations in Floyd or Liberty County", Georgia, USA; restricted to "Liberty County, Georgia", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71.
Epedaphus gratiosus — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383.
English Names
Florida Hyla (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Florida Tree Frog (Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 124; Wright, 1932, Life Hist. Frogs Okefinokee Swamp, 2: 14; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).
Georgia Tree Frog (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158).
Bell-frog (Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 60).
Giant Tree Frog (Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).
Barking Tree Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71).
Barking 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: 321; 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 (eastern Virginia to eastern Louisiana); isolated records from southwestern Kentucky, southern New Jersey, Tennessee, and northern Alabama.
Comment
In the Hyla cinerea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102. Reviewed by Caldwell, 1982, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 298: 1-2.
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