Agalychnis Cope, 1864
Agalychnis Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 181. Type species: Hyla callidryas Cope, 1862, by original designation. Designation of Agalychnis moreletii as the type species of Agalychnis by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 801, and the comments by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 87, are in error; see Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 181, and Taylor, 1955, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 37: 525.
Hylomantis Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772. Type species: Hylomantis aspera Peters, 1873 "1872", by monotypy. Synonymy by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 258.
Pachymedusa Duellman, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 5. Type species: Phyllomedusa dacnicolor Cope, 1864, by original designation. Synonymy by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 258.
English Names
Leaf Frogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).
Mexican Giant Tree Frogs (Pachymedusa [no longer recognized]: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 66).
Mexican Leaf Frogs (Pachymedusa [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 25; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).
Rough Leaf Frogs (Hylomantis [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).
Distribution
Pacific lowlands of Mexico from southern Sonora south, including the Balsas Depression to the state of Mexico, to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; tropical southern Mexico, Central America, Pacific lowlands of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador; Upper Amazon Basin and lower Andean slopes in Colombia, Venezuela, and northeastern Peru, likely into eastern Ecuador; Atlantic coastal forests of Bahia and Pernambuco, Brazil.
Comment
For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 81-128. Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 227-261, recently revised the genus within a larger treatment of the subfamily. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the results of Faivovich et al., 2010, but retained a paraphyletic Hylomantis and did not accept the synonymy of Pachymedusa and Hylomantis.
Contained taxa
- Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963)
- Agalychnis aspera (Peters, 1873)
- Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)
- Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862)
- Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864)
- Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988)
- Agalychnis granulosa (Cruz, 1989)
- Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995)
- Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882)
- Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)
- Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853)
- Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980)
- Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955
- Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913
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