Boana picturata (Boulenger, 1899)

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

Hyla picturata Boulenger, 1899, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 3: 276. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.13.35 (originall 1898.10.26.27), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 84, and museum records. Type locality: "Paramba, [Province Imbabura,] N.W. Ecuador".

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

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

English Names

Imbabura Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Pacific lowlands of southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Hypsiboas punctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88. Transferred into the Boana albopunctata group on the basis of molecular evidence by Almeida, Moraes, Rojas-Zamora, Roberto, Carvalho, Ávila, Frazão, Silva, Menin, Werneck, Hrbek, Farias, and Gordo, 2021, Zootaxa, 4933: 301–323. 

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