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Hyloscirtus piceigularis (Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Hyloscirtus

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Hyla piceigularis Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982, Caldasia, 13: 659. Holotype: ICN 5180, by original designation. Type locality: "Cabeceras del río Luisito (tributary del río Oibita), Município El Encino, Departamento Santander, vertiente oriental de la Cordillera, Colombia: altura 1.750 m.s.n.m., Long. 73° 17′ 17″ W de Greenwich, Lat. 6° 5′ 54″ N".

Hyloscirtus piceigularis — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.

Boana piceigularis — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.

English Names

Rio Luisito Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Western slope of the Cordillera Oriental in the departments of Cundinamarca and Santander, Colombia, 1750-2000 m elevation.

Comment

In the Hyla bogotensis group according to the original publication. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84-85. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 251. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351-363.

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