Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla staufferi Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 195. Holotype: USNM 15317 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 173 Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 60. Type locality: "Orizava [= Orizaba, Veracruz], Mexico".

Hyla eximia staufferi — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 14.

Hyliola staufferi — Mocquard, 1899, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 4, 1: 339.

Hyla culex Dunn and Emlen, 1932, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 84: 24. Holotype: MCZ 16098, by original designation. Type locality: "Tela, [Departamento Atlantidad,] Honduras". Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 863; Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 274.

Hyla staufferi staufferi — León, 1969, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 540.

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

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

English Names

Stauffer's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64); Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 104; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 109).

Stauffer's Longnosed Treefrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 85).

Stauffer's Long-nosed Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22).

Stauffer's Treefrog (Scinax staufferi stafferi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22).

Distribution

Savannas and subhumid forest in the lowlands to moderate elevations from southern Tamaulipas, Mexico, southward to Nicaragua on the Caribbean versant and from Guerrero, Mexico, to northwestern Costa Rica on the Pacific; disjunctly on the Pacific lowlands of western to central Panama.

Comment

For discussion (as Hyla staufferi staufferi) see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 195-199. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 104-106, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 109-111, provided an account. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 347-348, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 325-331. Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 48-50, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Mata-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista, and Johnson, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 508, provided a record from Oaxaca, Mexico, and commented on the range.

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