Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla elaeochroa Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 105. Syntypes: USNM 30688-90 (3 specimens); USNM 30689 designated lectotype by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 53. Type locality: "east foot of mountains near Sipurio," Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia Limón, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 108, commented on the type locality.

Hyla quinquevittata Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 273. Holotype: USNM 14187 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 58. Type locality: "Nicaragua". Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 859.

Hyla dulcensis Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 37. Holotype: KU 32168, by original designation. Type locality: "Golfito, [Cantón de Golfito,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 92, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 270.

Ololygon elaeochroa — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.

Scinax elaeochroa — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21.

Scinax elaeochrous — Köhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

English Names

Sipurio Snouted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands from Nicaragua to western Panama; Pacific lowlands of Golfo Dulce region in Costa Rica and Panama; isolated population in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, below 700 m elevation.

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 188-193, and Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1-127. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. The species name is a noun in apposition and does not change endings in combination with a masculine generic name. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 345-347. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.

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