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Hypsiboas fasciatus (Günther, 1858)

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

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Hyla fasciata Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 327. Holotype: BMNH 58.4.25.22, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 56. Type locality: "Anden von Ecuador". A secondary homonym of Calamita fasciatus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 172, in Hyla, which is a nomen dubium and nomen oblitum—see Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 316.

Hypsiboas fasciatus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 354.

Hyla steinbachi Boulenger, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 16: 182. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.13.61-63 (formerly 1904.10.29.173-175) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 95. Type locality: "Province Sara, Departament Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia". Synonymy by De la Riva, 1990, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 8: 279.

Hypsiboas fasciatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86.

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

English Names

Gunther's Banded Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).

Distribution

Guianas and upper Amazon Basin from southeastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador through eastern Peru to Bolivia; possibly to be found in southern Venezuela.

Comment

See Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 523-526. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 128-129, provided a brief account and photo. In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 146-147.

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