Pseudacris ocularis (Bosc, 1801)
Hyla ocularis Bosc In Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (An. X), Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 187. Holotype: MNHNP according to Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 33, and Daudin, 1803 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Rept., 8: 69, and presumably animal figured as "Hyla oculata" in pl. 4, fig. 2 of Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 20. Presumed lost because not reported in subsequent literature or type catalogue. Type locality: "grands bois de la Caroline sur les arbres"; given as "South Carolina and Georgia" by Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 32; restricted to "vicinity of Charleston", South Carolina, USA, by Harper, 1939, Am. Midl. Nat., 22: 139-144.
Hyla oculata — Daudin, 1802 (An. XI), Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 20, Pl. 4, fig. 2. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Hyla ocularis.
Calamita ocularis — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 172.
Auletris ocularis — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.
Hylodes ocularis Holbrook, 1838, N. Am. Herpetol., 3: 79. Types: Not designated or known to exist. Type locality: "South Carolina and Georgia", USA. Considered by Mittleman, 1946, Herpetologica, 3: 57-60, to be the first description of this species, the earlier name Hyla ocularis representing a species of Acris.
Chorophilus angulatus Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 30. Types: Not designated, description by indication on Cystignathus ocularis Holbrook, 1842, N. Am. Herpetol., Ed. 2, 4: 137. Type locality: Given by Cope as "South Carolina", given earlier by Holbrook as "South Carolina and Georgia", USA; restricted to the "vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 333.
Cystignathus ocularis — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 27.
Chorophilus ocularis — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 30. Based on specimen of Pseudacris ornata (as Chorophilus copii) according to Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 334; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 333.
Pseudacris ocularis — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 31. Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 1; Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 57.
Hyla ocularis — Noble, 1923, Am. Mus. Novit., 70: 5. by implication; Harper, 1939, Am. Midl. Nat., 22: 139-144.
Acris ocularis — Mittleman, 1946, Herpetologica, 3: 59. Based on the view that Hyla ocularis Bosc and Daudin represents Acris gryllus of this list, rather than that currently referred to as Pseudacris ocularis. This view disputed by Neill, 1950, Am. Midl. Nat., 43: 156.
Limnaoedus ocularis — Mittleman and List, 1953, Copeia, 1953: 83.
Limnaoedus ocularis — Mittleman and List, 1953, Copeia, 1953: 80-83.
Pseudacris ocularis — Hedges, 1986, Syst. Zool., 35: 11. Silva, 1997, J. Herpetol., 31: 609-613; Cocroft, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 420-437.
English Names
Black-spotted Tree Frog (Chorophilus angulatus [no longer recognized]: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 23).
Tree Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Little Chorus Frog (Wright, 1932, Life Hist. Frogs Okefinokee Swamp, 2: 13; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).
Least Tree Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71).
Little Grass Frog (Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 57; 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: 326; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 13; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 12; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 10; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 20).
Distribution
Coastal plain of southeastern Virginia to western and peninsular Florida, USA.
Comment
In the Pseudacris crucifer group of of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 106. Reviewed, as Limnaoedus ocularis, by Franz and Chantell, 1978, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 209: 1-2. Regarded as a nomen dubium by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 36. See nomenclatural discussion by Mittleman, 1946, Herpetologica, 3: 57-60, who considered Hyla ocularis Bosc and Daudin, 1801, to be a senior synonym of Acris gryllus or Acris crepitans.
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