Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Rana bicolor Boddaert, 1772, Epist. Rana bicolore: 15. Type(s): Not known to exist (originally in collection of Johann Albert Schlosser). Type locality: "Guinea" or "Surinamo"; restricted to "Surinam" by Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 38.

Calamita bicolor — Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 156.

Hyla bicolor — Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 1: 3, pl. 1, 2; Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 174; Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 22; Gistel in Gistel and Bromme, 1850, Handb. Naturgesch.: 331.

Phyllomedusa bicolor — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201. Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 427.

Rana (Phyllomedusa) bicolor — Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 16.

Phyllomedusa boiei Fitzinger In Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 67. Nomen nudum proposed as a synonym of Rana bicolor Schneider.

Pithecopus scleroderma Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 112. Holotype: ANSP 2173, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 352. Type locality: "Surinam". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 427.

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

English Names

Blue-and-Yellow Frog (Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 126; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 67).

Bicoloured Tree-frog (Wood, 1863, Illust. Nat. Hist., 3: 173).

Giant Monkey Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru; the Guianan region of Venezuela and the Guianas. possibly to be found in eastern Ecuador.

Comment

See accounts by Duellman, 1974, Herpetologica, 30: 105-112, and Lescure, Marty, Marty, Starace, Thomay, and Letellier, 1995, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 22: 35-50. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 100-101, provided a brief account and photo. Not assigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117-118. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park, 5: 192-193, provided an account. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 204-207.

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