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Hypsiboas stenocephalus (Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999)

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

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Hyla stenocephala Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 403: 5. Holotype: MNRJ 3821, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil, Minas Gerais, Municipio Poços de Caldas (21° 47′ S, 46° 33′ W)".

Hypsiboas stenocephalus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from two location in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil, the type locality (Poços de Caldas, on the São Paulo frontier) and the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, and the border of western Rio de Janeiro state.

Comment

In the Hyla polytaenia group according to the original publication. In the Hyla pulchella group, Hyla polytaenia clade of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 944. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87-88. Santos, Oliveira, São Pedro, Monteiro-Leonel, and Feio, 2009, Check List, 5: 27-31, provided a second record and provided a distribution map.

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