Smilisca baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)
Hyla Baudinii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 564. Holotype: MNHNP 4798, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 160; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 18. Type locality: "Mexique"; restricted to "Córdoba", Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 347; restricted (in error) to "Mexico City" by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69.
Hyla vanvlietii Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. Holotype: Not stated; USNM 3256 (as a 'type' of Smilisca baudini, apparently in error), according to Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 141; this specimen considered a likely syntype of Hyla vanvlietii by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 60. Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 160, considered USNM 3239 to be the lost holotype. Type locality: "Brownsville, [Cameron County,] Texas", USA. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 371.
Hyla vociferans Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): fig. 11-13. Types: Not stated, although include figured animals in original, presumably originally in ANSP or USNM. Type locality not designated. Synonymy by Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 13.
Hyla muricolor Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 359. Holotype: likely USNM 25097 (formerly 4818) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 160, and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 56. Type locality: "[Hacienda] Mirador, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 371.
Smilisca daulinia Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 194. Holotype: "a skeleton in the private anatomical museum of Hyrtl. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Vienna". Type locality: Not designated; designated as "Córdoba", Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 347. Synonymy by Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 85, who suggested that the name "must probably be considered an erroneous orthography of the same [baudini]". Apparently Cope coined the name Smilisca daulinia as a new name even though he had taken the name from a specimen label written by someone else (DRF).
Smilisca baudinii — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 85.
Smilisca daudinii — Cope, 1871, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 23: 205. Error for Smilisca baudinii.
Smilisca baudinii — Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 31.
Hyla pansosana Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 125. Holotype: MNHNP 6313, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 23. Type locality: "Pansos [= Panzós, Department of Alta Verapaz] (Rio Polochie [= Río Polochic]", Guatemala. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 371.
Hyla (Smilisca) baudini — Sumichrast, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 190.
Hyla beltrani Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 306. Holotype: EHT-HMS 29563, by original designation; now UIMNH 25046, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 176. Type locality: "Tapachula, Chiapas", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 289.
Hyla manisorum Taylor, 1954, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 36: 630. Holotype: KU 34927, by original designation. Type locality: "Bataan [= Batán, Cantón de Matina], Limón Province, Costa Rica". Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 78. Synonymy by Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 289.
English Names
Van Vliet's Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).
Mexican Tree Frog (Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 50; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).
Tooter (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).
Mexican Treefrog (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 14; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 16; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 107; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 12; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 8; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21).
Mexican Smilisca (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 69).
Common Mexican Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 28; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 111).
Baudin's Treefrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 86).
Distribution
Extreme southern Texas (USA) and southern Sonora (Mexico) south (including the Balsas Depression of Mexico) in tropical lowlands to Costa Rica; Tres Marias Islands off the coast of Nayarit, Mexico.
Comment
Reviewed by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 59: 1-2, Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 594-598, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 996-997 (who posited that Smilsca baudinii is the sister species of Triprion plus Pternohyla, rendering Smilisca paraphyletic). See also Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 107-110, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 86-87, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 111-114, for accounts. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 349-351, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 331-338. Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-López, Reynoso-Rosales, Estrada-Hernandez, and Rodriguez-Blanco, 2001, Anal. Inst. Biol., Univ. Nac. Aut. Mexico, Ser. Zool., 72: 233-243, provided a record from Guanajuato. Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 50-52, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. Casas-Andreu, 1990, Herpetol. Rev., 21: 38, provided the record for Isla María Madre, Nayarit, Mexico. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations.
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