Hyloscirtus jahni (Rivero, 1961)
Hyla jahni Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 113. Holotype: UMMZ 46456, by original designation. Type locality: "Escorial" [= El Escurial, Estado Mérida,] Venezuela".
Hyloscirtus jahni — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.
Boana jahni — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.
English Names
Jahn's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Cloud forests of the Mérida Andes in the states of Mérida and Trujillo, Venezuela, 1000-3000 m elevation.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Hyla platydactyla by La Marca, 1985, J. Herpetol., 19: 227-237, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 27. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 616. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.
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