Hyla catharinae Boulenger, 1888, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 1: 417. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.12.65-66 (formerly 88.4.23.20-21) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 89. Type locality: "Serra do Catharina", Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Hyla strigilata catharinae — Gallardo, 1961, Comun. Mus. Argent. Cienc. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia, Cienc. Zool, 3: 152.
Ololygon catharinae — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.
Scinax catharinae — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 6, 21.
Catharina Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).
Mountains of eastern and southeastern Brazil.
For discussion see (as Hyla catharinae) Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 183. In the Scinax catharinae clade, Scinax catharinae group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 95. Many of the subspecies cited by Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 183-189, and by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 43-44, are recognizable species according to U. Caramaschi in Frost, 1985, 160. See Scinax angrensis.
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