Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla rufitela Fouquette, 1961, Fieldiana, Zool., 39: 595. Holotype: FMNH 13053 (not 13453 as noted in original publication), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 98. Type locality: "Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone", Panama.

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

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

English Names

Canal Zone Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands from eastern Nicaragua to central Panama; the Pacific lowlands of Colombia south to the Department of Risaralda (see comment).

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 240-245, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 859. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 302-303, provided an account and noted that with the possible exception of records for western Colombia all records of this species from the Pacific drainage of Central America should be referred to Hyla rosenbergi. In the Hypsiboas pellucens group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.

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