Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla coriacea Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 711. Syntypes: ZMB 5807 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 153, and Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 42. Type locality: "Surinam".

Hyla quadrangulum Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 367. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.13.75 (formerly 60.6.16.120) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94, this specimen figured on plate 25, fig. 2 of the original publication. Type locality: "W. Ecuador". Synonymy with Hyla mesophaea by Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94); with Hyla coriacea by Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 4: 10.

Phrynohyas coriacea — Duellman, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 205.

Trachycephalus coriaceus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 111.

English Names

Surinam Golden-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Surinam Casque-heded Treefrog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 208).

Distribution

French Guiana, Surinam, and Upper Amazon Basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and downstream to near Manaus, Brazil.

Comment

Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 190-191, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Zimmerman and Rodrigues, 1990, in Gentry (ed.), Four Neotropical Rainforests: 426-454, provided the first central Brazilan Amazonia record for this species, near Manaus. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 58-588, reported this species from the region of Leticia, Colombia. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 208-209, provided an account. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 192-195.

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