Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla caingua Carrizo, 1991 "1990", Cuad. Herpetol., 5: 32. Holotype: MACN 33294, by original designation. Type locality: "Iguazú, Misiones", Argentina.

Hypsiboas caingua — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

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

English Names

Striped Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Distribution

Misiones and adjacent Corrientes provinces in northeastern Argentina and in adjacent southeastern Paraguay to Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil; isolated population in São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Comment

In the Hyla polytaenia group according to the original publication and formerly confused with Hyla polytaenia. Transferred to the Hyla pulchella group by Cruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 6. See Lavilla and Cei, 2001, Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 28: 42, for summary of recent literature. In the Hyla pulchella group of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 938-950. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87-88. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Aoki, Landref, Sousa, Oda, Gamarra, and Souza, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 507, provided the record for Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and commented on the range. Souza and Lima, 2012, Check List, 8: 800-801, also provided a record for Mato Grosso do Sul and commented on the range.

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