Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla lesueurii Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 14: 452. Holotype: "V. planch. de ce Diction." (plate not seen by DRF), presumably the same as the frog illustrated by Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1831, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 17: plate cxxiv. Type locality: "la Havane", Cuba. Synonymy and consideration as a nomen oblitum under Art. 23.9.1 of the Interational Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) by Shea, 2001, J. Herpetol., 35: 339.

Hyla sueurii — Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1831, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat., 17: 133, plate cxxiv. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Dendrohyas septentrionalis Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 33, 74. Nomen nudum. See Stejneger, 1905, in Shattuck (ed.), Bahama Islands: 330.

Trachycephalus marmoratus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 538. Holotype: MNHNP 4612 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 22. Type locality: "Cuba". Secondary homonym of Bufo marmoratus Laurenti, 1768.

Hyla septentrionalis Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 538. Name proposed in synonymy of Trachycephalus marmoratus.

Trachycephalus insulsus Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 43. Syntypes: USNM 12166 (formerly 6265) and 167237 (formerly 6266), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 152. Including ANSP 2181, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351. Type locality: "Cuba". Suggested synonym (with Trachycephalus marmoratus) by Gundlach, 1868, in Poey (ed.), Repert. Fis. Nat. Cuba, 2: 118. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 368 Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 238.

Trachycephalus wrightii Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 45. Holotype: USNM 5174 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 81. Type locality: "District of Guantanamo, Southeastern Cuba". Suggested synonymy (with Trachycephalus marmoratus) by Gundlach, 1868, in Poey (ed.), Repert. Fis. Nat. Cuba, 2: 118. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 368; Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 238; Barbour, 1916, Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat. Felipe Poey, 2: 126.

Trachycephalus septentrionalis — Barbour, 1904, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 46: 56.

Hyla schebestana Werner, 1917, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 34: 36. Holotype: ZMH, lost, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 152, and Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 212. Type locality: "Kuba" (= Cuba). Synonymy by Duellman and Crombie, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 92: 1.

Hyla microterodisca Werner, 1921, Zool. Anz., 52: 178. Holotype: Collection not designated, presumably NHMW. Type locality: "Kuba". Synonymy by Schwartz, Thomas, and Ober, 1978, Spec. Publ. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 9.

Hyla dominicensis septentrionalis — Mertens, 1938, Senckenb. Biol., 20: 333. Peters, 1974, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 50: 301.

Hyla insulsa — Mittleman, 1950, Herpetologica, 6: 26.

Hyla dominicensis insulsa — Mittleman, 1950, Herpetologica, 6: 26.

Osteopilus septentrionalis — Trueb and Tyler, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 24: 39.

English Names

Marbled Tree-toad (Trachycephalus marmoratus [no longer recognized]: Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 172).

Giant Tree-frog (Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 62).

Cuban Treefrog (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 325; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 11).

Distribution

West Indies: Cuba, Isla de Pinos (now Isla de Juventud), Cayman Is., Bahama Is.; introduced on northwestern Puerto Rico, Curacao, St. Maarten and Saba (Netherlands Antilles), North Caicos (Turks and Caicos Islands), Antigua, Oahu (Hawaii), U.S. Virgin Is., British Virgin Is. (St. Martin and Tortola), Anguilla, much of Florida and adjacent coastal Georgia (USA), and Puerto Limón, Costa Rica.

Comment

Reviewed by Duellman and Crombie, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 92: 1-4 (as Hyla septentrionalis). See Powell, Passaro, and Henderson, 1992, Caribb. J. Sci., 28: 234-235, for St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. See discussion of species nomenclature by Mittleman, 1950, Herpetologica, 6: 24-26, in which he suggested that Hyla septentrionalis Schlegel, 1837, is not a nomen nudum and applies to Hyla chalconota. Anguilla record by Townsend, Eaton, Powell, Parmerlee, and Henderson, 2000, Caribb. J. Sci., 36: 326-328. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 338-340. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 180183, reported on introduced population in Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico Virgin Islands, St. Martin, Anguilla, and Nevis. Owen, Perry, Lazell, Petrovic, and Egelhoff, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 76, provided a record for Tortola, British Virgin Islands. Powell, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 215, provided a record for Saba I., Netherlands Antilles. Johnson, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 349, provided the record for Georgia, USA. Lindsay and Cooper, 2008, Appl. Herpetol., 5: 96-98, reported an introduced population on Antigua, West Indies. An introduced population in Curacao was reported by van Burt, 2007, Appl. Herpetol., 4: 390-391. Díaz and Cadíz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba, 4: 127-128, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Meshaka, Boundy, and Williams, 2009, J. Kansas Herpetol., 32: 13-16, suggested that the expanding introduced population in Florida, USA, can be expected to extend west and south completely around the Gulf of Mexico. Wilson and Bechler, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 376, provided a northern Florida, USA, record of Nassau Country. Stevenson and Somma, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 107-108, provided a record for northern Florida and discussed the particulars of that introduced range. Reynolds, Niemiller, Riggs, and Manco, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 237-238, provided a record from the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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