Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla buckleyi Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 362. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.13.36-39 (Sarayacu), 1947.2.13.40-41, 1947.2.13.43-45 (Canelos), 1947.2.13.46 (Pallatanga); BM 1947.2.13.44 designated lectotype by Trueb and Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 1: 19. Type locality: "Sarayacu" and "Canelos", Provincia Pastaza, and "Paitanga" (= Pallatanga), Provincia Chimborazo (in error), Ecuador; type locality restricted to Canelos by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 213, and by lectotype designation.

Osteocephalus buckleyi — Goin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 13.

English Names

Buckley's Slender-legged Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

An arc around the periphery of the Amazon Basin from Colombia to east-central Bolivia, the Guianas and northeastern Brazil (Amapá), at elevations less than 700 m, and to the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela.

Comment

See Osteocephalus cabrerai account. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 180-181, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 37-38. It is not clear what the effect on the stated range is with the exclusion of Osteocephalus carri from synonymy (DRF). Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 180-181, provided an account and noted that the taxon represents a complex of species. Ron, Toral, Venegas, and Barnes, 2010, ZooKeys, 70: 67-92, provided a mtDNA tree which had samples of Osteocephalus buckleyi both within and without nominal Osteocephalus verruciger, suggesting either introgressive hybridization or cryptic species. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 160-161.

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