Sphaenorhynchus Tschudi, 1838
Sphaenorhynchus Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 28. 71. Type species: Hyla lactea Daudin, 1802, by original designation.
Sphaenorhincus — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 612. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Sphaenorhynchus.
Dryomelictes Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Type species: Hyla lactea Daudin, 1802, by original designation. Synonymy by Myers and Leviton, 1961, Herpetologica, 17: 62.
Dryomelictes Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 194. Type species: Hyla aurantiaca Daudin, 1802, by original designation. Preoccupied by Dryomelictes Fitzinger, 1843. Synonymy by Myers and Leviton, 1961, Herpetologica, 17: 62.
Hylopsis Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 156. Type species: Hylopsis platycephalus Werner, 1894, by monotypy.
Sphoenorhynchus — Lutz and Lutz, 1938, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 10: 175. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Sphoenohyla Lutz and Lutz, 1938, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 10: 178. Type species: Hyla aurantiaca Daudin,1802, by original designation. Named as an explicit subgenus of Hyla because Sphaenorhynchus thought erroneously to be preoccupied by Sphenorhynchus Lichtenstein, 1823 (Aves).
Sphaenorhynchus — Goin, 1957, Caldasia, 8: 11.
English Names
Lime Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).
Distribution
Amazon and Orinoco basins of South America; Guianas; and eastern Brazil; Trinidad.
Comment
Considered the sister taxon of Scarthyla + Scinax by Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 1-23. See nomenclatural discussion by Myers and Leviton, 1961, Herpetologica, 17: 61-62. In Dendropsophini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89.
Contained taxa
- Sphaenorhynchus botocudo Caramaschi, Almeida, and Gasparini, 2009
- Sphaenorhynchus bromelicola Bokermann, 1966
- Sphaenorhynchus caramaschii Toledo, Garcia, Lingnau, and Haddad, 2007
- Sphaenorhynchus carneus (Cope, 1868)
- Sphaenorhynchus dorisae (Goin, 1957)
- Sphaenorhynchus lacteus (Daudin, 1800)
- Sphaenorhynchus mirim Caramaschi, Almeida, and Gasparini, 2009
- Sphaenorhynchus orophilus (Lutz and Lutz, 1938)
- Sphaenorhynchus palustris Bokermann, 1966
- Sphaenorhynchus pauloalvini Bokermann, 1973
- Sphaenorhynchus planicola (Lutz and Lutz, 1938)
- Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus (Werner, 1894)
- Sphaenorhynchus prasinus Bokermann, 1973
- Sphaenorhynchus surdus (Cochran, 1953)
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