Hyla hallowellii Thompson, 1912
Hyla hallowellii Thompson, 1912, Herpetol. Notices, 2: 2. (June 28, 1912) Holotype: CAS 23808, by original designation. Type locality: "Kikaigashima, Loo Choo [= Ryukyu] Islands, Japan".
Hyla hallowelli Van Denburgh, 1912, Adv. Diagn. New Rept. Amph. Loo Choo Is. Formosa: 3. (July 29, 1912) Holotype: CAS 23806, by original designation. Type locality: "Kikaigo shima, Loo Choo Islands, Japan". Synonymy by Barbour, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 44: 1.
Hyla hallowelli hallowelli — Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 322.
Hyla hallowelli schmidti Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 322. Holotype: CAS 23852, by original designation. Type locality: "Naze, Amami[shima]", Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Distinctiveness doubted by Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 43.
English Names
Hallowell's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).
Hallowell's Tree Frog (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 56).
Distribution
Ryukyu Is., Japan.
Comment
In the Hyla arborea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101-102 (see comment under Hyla); more likely in the Hyla eximia group in the sense of Kuramoto, 1980, Copeia, 1980: 100-108. For discussion see Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 35, and Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 67-70. See also Matsui and Matsui, 1982, Japan. J. Herpetol., 9: 79-86 (for range extension), and Nishioka, Sumida, and Borkin, 1990, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 10: 93-124. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 40-43, provided an account. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 56-58, provided an account, map, and photograph.
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