Hypsiboas lanciformis Cope, 1871 "1870", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 556. Type(s): Not stated, presumably ANSP or USNM, though not now known to exist. Type locality: "Pebas, Equador [sic]", Loreto, Peru.
Hyla lanciformis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 361.
Hyla microcentra Werner, 1921, Zool. Anz., 52: 180. Holotype: Not designated, although presumably NHMW or ZMB. Type locality: "Kolumbien". Synonymy by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 189.
Hyla hypocellata Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 70. Holotype: MZUSP 236, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 67. Type locality: "Rio Juruá", Amazonas, Brazil; corrected to "Eirunepé, rio Juruá, Amazonas", Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 52. Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 52.
Hyla lanciformis lanciformis — Rivero, 1971, Caribb. J. Sci., 11: 4.
Hyla lanciformis guerreroi Rivero, 1971, Caribb. J. Sci., 11: 4. Holotype: UPRM 2635, by original designation. Type locality: "Guatapo, Edo. Miranda, Venezuela".
Hypsiboas lanciformis — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86.
Boana lanciformis — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.
Basin Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Middle and upper Amazon Basin (Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia) and in Venezuela in forests of the Coastal Range, the Venezuelan Guayana and the Amazon Basin.
See Trueb, 1977, Syst. Zool., 26: 165-184. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 31. In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86.
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