Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla moreletii Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 169. Syntypes: MNHNP 428 (parchment labeled 767) (2 specimens), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 25. Type locality: "Vera-Paz", Guatemala; corrected to "Cobán in [Departamento Alta] Vera Paz, Guatemala" by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146, and this followed by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 317.

Hyla holochlora Salvin, 1860, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860: 460. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens), including BMNH 1947.2.24.23 (formerly 64.1.26.142), considered holotype (a lectotype designation by implication) by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 147; Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 91. Type locality: "Coban", Departamento de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Synonymy by Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 356; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 442.

Agalychnis holochlora — Cope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 110.

Agalychnis moreletii — Cope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 110. Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 619.

Hyla Morelettii — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 297. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Phyllomedusa moreletii — Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146.

Phyllomedusa (Agalychnis) moreletii — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601, 619.

Agalychnis moreletti — Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Popeye Hyla (Smith, 1945, Ward’s Nat. Sci. Bull., 1: 4).

Morelet's Leaf Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 87; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 73; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 92; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).

Morelet's Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).

Black-eyed Leaf Frog (Ready and Fenolio, 1995, Vivarium, 5: 26-29).

Distribution

In disjunct populations from on both Atlantic and Pacific slopes from Veracruz, adjacent Puebla, and Guerrero through Chiapas, Mexico, to the Maya Mountains of Belize, Guatemala, northwestern Honduras, and El Salvador.

Comment

See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 112-116, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 840. See also accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 86-87; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 75-76, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 92-93; and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 236-239. Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén, and Salazar-Arenas, 2000, Herpetol. Rev., 31: 259, provided the first report for Puebla. Köhler, Vesely, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 35-37, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 239. In the Agalychis callidryas group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.

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