Smilisca phaeota (Cope, 1862)
Hyla phaeota Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358. Holotype: USNM 39899 (formerly 4347) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 57. Type locality: "Turbo, [Intendencia de Chocó, Colombia,] New Granada".
Hyla baudini dolomedes Barbour, 1923, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 129: 11. Holotype: MCZ 8539, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Esnápe, Sambú Valley, eastern Panama". Synonymy by Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 413.
Hyla carinata Andersson, 1939 "1938", Ark. Zool., 30(23): 22. Syntypes: NHRM 1874 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 42. Type locality: "San José. Tarraco", Bolivia. This locality considered erroneous by De la Riva, 1993, Herpetol. J., 3: 113-114, who discussed why the likely provenance was probably Chocoan Ecuador or Colombia, and placed this name in synonymy.
Smilisca phaeota phaeota — Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 8: 150.
Smilisca phaeota — Starrett, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 303.
English Names
New Granada Cross-banded Treefrog (Smilisca phaeota: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Tarraco Treefrog (Hyla carinata: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).
Central American Smilisca (Smilisca phaeota: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 69).
Distribution
Caribbean lowlands of Central America from eastern Honduras, and Nicaragua to northwestern Colombia; Pacific lowlands of southeastern Costa Rica, eastern Panama, Colombia, and northwestern Ecuador; valley of the Río Magdalena, Colombia.
Comment
Reviewed by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 61: 1-2, and Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 603-607. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 351-352, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 338-341. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 39, detailed the departmental range in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189-202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Travers, Townsend, Sunyer, Obando, Wilson, and Nickerson, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 399, noted a new locality in Nicaragua (Jinotega).
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