Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana goiana

Hyla polytaenia goiana Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 12: 11. Holotype: MNRJ 3235, by original designation. Type locality: "Jatobasinho, São João da Aliança, highlands of Goiás", Brazil., 19° 30′ S, 43° 44′ W, Brazil.

Hyla goianaCruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 5.

Hyla phaeopleura Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 422: 5. Holotype: MNRJ 19915, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil, Goiás, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Município de Alto Paraíso de Goiás, no cruzamento entre o rio dos Couros e à estrada que liga a cidade de Alto Paraíso de Goiás a vila de São Jorge (14° 08′ S, 47° 32′ W)". Synonymy by Faivovich, Pinheiro, Lyra, Pereyra, Baldo, Muñoz-Saravia, Reichle, Brandão, Giaretta, Thomé, Chaparro, Baêta, Widholzer, Baldo, Lehr, Wheeler, Garcia, and Haddad, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 155 (106981): 15; this synonymy confirmed by the results of Vasconcellos, Colli, and Cannatella, 2021, J. Biogeograph., 48: 310.  

Hypsiboas phaeopleura — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

Hypsiboas goianusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

Boana goiana — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28. 

Boana phaeopleura — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Central Plateau of Goiás and the Federal District and southeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Cruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 1–19, for account and placement in the Hyla polytaenia group. In the Hyla pulchella group, Hyla polytaenia clade of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 944. Menin, Silva, and Giaretta, 2004, Iheringia, Zool., 94: 49–51, described the advertisement call and reproductive behavior. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87–88. Dias, Bastos, Siqueira, and Morais, 2014, Herpetol. Notes, 7: 215–217, reported on the release call. Signorelli, Morais, and Vieira, 2016, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 51: 188–196, reported on vocalization. Furtado, Santos, Dias, Bastos, and Nomura, 2016, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 11: 136–147, reported on vocal repertoire. Oliveira, Santos, Souza, Lima-Ribeiro, Vergilio, Zórtea, Silva, Melo, Guilherme, Vaz-Silva, and Morais, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 492, reported the species from southwestern Goíás, Brazil, and discussed natural history. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 48–50, provided accounts (as Boana phaeopleura and Boana goiana). Andreani, Bastos, Dias, Prado, and Lima, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 42: 43–57, reported on acoustic variability. 

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