Hylorina Bell, 1843

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Batrachylidae > Genus: Hylorina
1 species

Hylorina Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 44. Type species: Hylorina sylvatica Bell, 1843, by monotypy.

Hylorhina Agassiz, 1846, Nomencl. Zool., Fasc. 12: 190. Unjustified emendation of Hylorina Bell, 1843.

English Names

Emerald Forest Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).

Distribution

Austral humid forests of Chonos I. northward to Valdivia region, Chile; adjacent Argentina.

Comment

Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: fig. 50, and Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 153, included Hylorina in Cycloramphidae; Correa-Quezada, Veloso, Iturra-Constant, and Méndez-Torres, 2006, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 79: 435-450, placed Hylorhina near to Batrachyla among their exemplars, although this is consistent with its placement in Cycloramphidae. Basso, Úbeda, Bunge, and Martinazzo, 2011, Zootaxa, 3002: 31-44, transferred Hylorina into Batrachylidae. The DNA sequences associated with the placement of Hylorina in Alsodidae by Pyron, and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, are misidentified according to Blotto, Nuñez, Úbeda, Wheeler, and Faivovich, 2013, Cladistics, 29: 113-131.

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

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