Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913
Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913: 1024. Syntypes: including BMNH 1947.2.24.24-25 (formerly 1913.11.12.129-130) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 86, who also noted that 4 specimens were mentioned in the original publication). Type locality: "Peña Lisa, Condoto, altitude 300 feet", Provincia Chocó, Colombia.
Phyllomedusa spurrelli — Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 39.
Phyllomedusa litodryas Duellman and Trueb, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 125. Holotype: KU 96149, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km west-southwest of the junction of the Río Mono and the Río Tuira, Darién Province, Panamá, elevation 130 m". Synonymy by Ortega-Andrade, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 105.
Agalychnis litodryas — Duellman, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 4.
English Names
Gliding Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).
Pink-sided Leaf Frog (Agalychnis litodryas [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).
Distribution
Central western lowlands of Costa Rica to the Pacific lowlands of Colombia (Valle del Cauca and Chocó) and adjacent Ecuador, 70-1000 m elevation.
Comment
See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 124-128, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 842-843. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 285-286. See account (as Agalychnis litodryas) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 128, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 840 (as Agalychnis litodryas). Ortega-Andrade, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 103-117, reported on variation and distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status of nominal Agalychnis litodryas in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 239. Vega and Robertson, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 361, provided a record for west-central Costa Rica and commented on the range. 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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