Hypsiboas punctatus (Schneider, 1799)
Calamita punctatus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 170. Syntypes: In "Museo Academico Upsalensi" (= ZUU) and "Museo Petropolitano" (= ZISP) and frog illustrated by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1: pl. 71, fig. 3. Type locality: "Surinam".
Hyla punctata — Daudin, 1802 (An. XI), Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 41. Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208, 214.
Hyla papillaris Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 34. Type(s): Not specifically designated but including animal figured on pl. 8, fig. 2 of the original publication; syntypes formerly in ZSM, now lost, according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 168. Type locality: "prope Ecgam ad flumen Solimoens" = Ega, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 357; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208, 226; Günther, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872: 663. Synonymy considered doubtful by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, and Lavilla, 1994 "1992", Acta Zool. Lilloana, 42: 72. See discussion by Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 144.
Hyla variolosa Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 34. Type(s): Not designated, but including animal figured in pl. 9, fig. 4 in the original publication; including ZSM 2495/0 (actually 2496/0 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 170), now lost, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 90, who considered it as holotype thereby making a lectotype designation by implication), and RMNH. RMNH 1879 designated lectotype by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366, and apparently invalid action given the earlier designation by Duellman. Type locality: "fluminis Amazonum" (= Rio Amazonas), Brazil. Tentative synonymy by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 552. Synonymy by Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 104; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 357; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 214, 226. See discussion by Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 144.
Hysaplesia punctata —Boie In Schlegel, 1826, Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., Paris, Ser. 2, 9: 239. See Stejneger, 1937, Copeia, 1937: 139.
Auletris variolosa — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.
Scinax variolosa — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.
Hypsiboas (Scinax) punctata — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.
Hyla (Hyla) punctata — Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 104.
Hypsiboas punctatus — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 201.
Hyla rhodoporus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 488. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation; BMNH 1947.2.23.5 (Upper Amazon) regarded as holotype by Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94, thereby making a lectotype designation by implication; this lectotype designation formalized by Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 172: 42. Type locality: "Upper Amazon" and "Surinam"; restricted to "Upper Amazon" by lectotype designation. Synonymy by Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 403; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208; Günther, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872: 663.
Hylella pearsei Ruthven, 1922, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 8: 57. Holotype: UMMZ 54639, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 17. Type locality: "Fundación, Santa Marta Mountains, [Departament of Magdalena,] Colombia". Synonymy by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 222.
Hyla pearsei — Dunn, 1944, Caldasia, 2: 516.
Hyla punctata rubro-lineata Lutz, 1951, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 47: 307. Syntypes: AL-MNRJ 4698-99, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 90. Type locality: "Buena Vista, [Departamento Sant Cruz,] Bolivia". Synonymy by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 10.
Hyla rubeola Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 225. Holotype: USNM 152751, by original designation. Type locality: "Serranía de La Macarena, Department of Meta, Colombia". Synonymy by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 10. Junior homonym of Hyla rubeola Péron, 1807 (species inquirenda and nomen oblitum).
Hyla punctata rubrolineata — Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 482-484.
Hypsiboas punctatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.
Boana punctata — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743. by implication.
Hypsiboas punctatus punctatus — Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9. by implication.
Hypsiboas punctatus rubrolineatus — Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9.
English Names
Polka-dot Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).
Distribution
Seasonally flooded forest of the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil and the Orinoco Basin; central Brazil; Chaco of Paraguay, and Argentina; Guianas, northern Colombia in the Sierra Santa Marta, Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Bolívar, and Sucre), and Trinidad.
Comment
Hyla punctata rubrolineata Lutz, 1951, was considered by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 482-484, to be a distinct species. See Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, for discussion. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 136-137, provided a brief account and photo. Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 40-42, and Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 72-73, provided accounts for the Trinidad and Tobago populations. Chacón-Ortiz and Diaz de Pascual, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 145, provided localities for Venezuela. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 35. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 33, commented on the range in Venezuela. Camargo-Siliet, Rivero, and La Marca, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 282, commented on the range in Venezuela. In the Hypsiboas punctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88. Napoli and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 283-288, discussed evidence from calls that suggests that Hyla punctata rubrolineata may be a distinct species, Hypsiboas rubrolineata. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9-10, briefly discused the range in Paraguay. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 158-159.
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