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Hypsiboas microderma (Pyburn, 1977)

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

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Hyla microderma Pyburn, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 405. Holotype: UTA A-5012, by original designation. Type locality: "about 2 km S. Yapima (long. 69° 28′ W, lat. 1° 03′ N), Comisaria de Vaupés, Colombia".

Hypsiboas microderma — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87.

English Names

Smallskin Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin in southeastern Colombia, northeastern Peru, and Brazil in western Amazonas, Acre, and northern Rondonia; likely to occur in northern Bolivia.

Comment

In the Hypsiboas benitezi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86-87. Melo-Sampaio, Meneghelli, Venâncio, Ruy, Silva, Suendel, Messias, and Souza, 2012, Check List, 8: 147-148, provided the first record for Rondonia and a spot map for its entire range.

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