Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)
Phyllomedusa medinae Funkhouser, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 588. Holotype: EBRG 37, by original designation. Type locality: "the biological station 'Henry Pittier' . . . . Estacion Biologica de Rancho Grande (Edo. Aragua, Venezuela)".
Phyllomedusa medinai — Rivero, 1967, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27: 9. Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1-40. Unjustified emendation.
Hylomantis medinai — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115.
Agalychnis medinae — Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.
English Names
Rancho Grande Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in Aragua, Venezuela.
Comment
See account by Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1-40. In the Hylomantis buckelyi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. Unassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed why the name medinae is not emendable.
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