Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Phyllomedusa iheringii Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 88. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.22. 26-31 (formerly 85.6.26.54-59) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 97, ZFMK 28560 (according to Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 182). Type locality: "S. Lorenzo, on the southern border of the Lagoa dos Patos. . . . Rio Grande do Sul", Brazil; rendered as "São L[o]urenço do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul", Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 83.

Phyllomedusa burmeisteri iheringii — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 604.

Phyllomedusa (Pithecopus) burmeisteri iheringi — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 605.

Phyllomedusa iheringii — Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 49. Klappenbach, 1961, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 5: 4.

Pithecopus burmeisteri iheringii — Lutz, 1966, Copeia, 1966: 236.

Pithecopus iheringii — Laurent, 1967, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 22: 232.

English Names

Southern Walking Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

Extreme southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), and Uruguay.

Comment

Account provided by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 435-436. In the Phyllomedusa burmeisteri group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117, and Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. See brief account by Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 188-189. The Argentinian population may be Phyllomedusa tetraploidea; see Pombal and Haddad, 1992, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 52: 224, 227; this confirmed by Lavilla and Cei, 2001, Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 28: 62. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 50, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population.

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