Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla nasica Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 354. Syntypes: USNM 5835, 32371, according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 56, and Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 63; Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 182, noted that only USNM 5835 (lot number?) was cited in the original description. Type locality: Not mentioned specifically, but the Page Expedition visited many localities now in Brazil,northeastern Argentina, and southern Paraguay, along the drainages of the Paraná and Paraguai Rivers. Type locality given as "Paraguay" by Müller and Hellmich, 1936, Wissenschaft. Ergebn. Deutschen Gran Chaco Exped., Amph. Rept.: 67.

Hyla nigra Cope, 1887, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 24: 47. Holotype: ANSP 11269, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 352. Type locality: "at or near . . . . Chupada [= Chapada dos Guimarães], thirty miles north-east of Cuyabá, and near the headwaters of the Xingu, an important tributary of the Amazon", Mato Grosso, Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 57, considered it a synonym of Hyla geographica. Synonymy with Hyla x-signata nasica by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 14.

Hylella anisitsi Méhely, 1904, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 2: 229. Holotype: MNH according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 30. Type locality: "near Asuncion and [or] Villa Sana", Paraguay. Synonymy by Langone, 1991, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 176: 1-3.

Hyla x-signata nasica — Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 143.

Hyla anisitzi — Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 30. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ololygon nasica — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 393.

Ololygon nasicum — Laurent and Teran, 1981, Fund. Miguel Lillo, Misc., 71: 10. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Scinax nasica — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Paraguay, northern and central Argentina (south to Córdoba and Buenos Aires provinces), Uruguay, eastern Bolivia, and southern Brazil.

Comment

See discussion by Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 182-183. Placed in the Scinax ruber group by Pombal, Haddad, and Kasahara, 1995, J. Herpetol., 29: 1-6. The Scinax ruber group rejected as nonmonophyletic by Faivovich, 2002, Cladistics, 18: 367-393. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. Rozzi Giménez and Gallego, 2001 "2000", Cuad. Herpetol., 14: 169, discussed the range. Cechin, Santos, Kopp, Spies, and Trevisan, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 222, provided a range extension to Rio Grande do Sul and commented on the distribution. Haro, Giraudo, and Cejas, 2001, Cuad. Herpetol., 15: 90-91, discussed the range in Argentina. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 48, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population. Natale and Herrera, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 360, provided a range extension in Argentina and discussed the range. Carezzano and Cabrera, 2010, Check List, 6: 390-391, provided a record for Córdoba Province, Argentina.

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