Hylomantis aspera Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772. Syntypes: ZMB 7507 and 52690-92 (formerly duplicates of 7507) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 43. Type locality: Bahia, Brazil; by implication; "provàvelmente Caravelas", Bahia, Brazil, according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 68.
Phyllomedusa aspera — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 425.
Phyllomedusa (Hylomantis) aspera — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601, 619.
Hylomantis aspera — Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 11: 19. Cruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 720.
Agalychnis aspera — Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.
Rough Leaf frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).
Southern Bahia, Brazil.
See account by Cruz, 1989 "1988", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 11: 40. In the Hylomantis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. In the Agalychis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Pimenta, Nunes, and Cruz, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 206-214, provided an extensive account and discussed the known range.
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