Dryophytes eximius (Baird, 1854)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dryophytes > Species: Dryophytes eximius

Hyla eximia Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 61. Syntypes: Not stated; USNM 3248 (2 specimens) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 164; probably syntypes according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 54. Type locality: "City of Mexico", Mexico. Restricted to "Coyoacán", Distrito Federal, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 329.

Hyla gracilipes Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 194. Syntypes: USNM 15318–21 (4 specimens) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 168, who designated USNM 15321 lectotype. Type locality: "Mexican table land, north-east of city of Mexico"; corrected to Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico, by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 168. Synonymy by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 165: 262; Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 421.

Hyliola eximiaMocquard, 1899, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 4, 1: 339.

Hyla cardenasi Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 430. Holotype: USNM 84403, by original designation. Type locality: "Puebla, Puebla, México". Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 499.

Hyla eximia eximiaSchmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71, by implication.

Hyla microeximia Maslin, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 81. Holotype: USNM 139246, by original designation. Type locality: "3 mi N. W. of Jocotepec in the Lake Chapala area, Jalisco, Mexico". Synonymy by Duellman, 1961, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 49.

Hyla (Dryophrytes) eximia — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 331, by implication. 

Dryophytes eximius — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 23. 

English Names

Mountain Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 14).

Distribution

South-central Durango and the Sierra Madre Oriental in Tamaulipas south to the Transverse Volcanic Range of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Mexico, Morelos, Distrito Federal, Puebla, Hidalgo, Queretaro, and Veracruz, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla eximia group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102; this confirmed by  Li, Wang, Nian, Litvinchuk, Wang, Li, Rao, and Klaus, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 87: 80–90, who also provided evidence for cryptic species within this complex. For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 499–505 (in the sense of including Hyla wrightorum), and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 985–987. See comments under Hyla wrightorum. Painter, 1986, Herpetol. Rev., 17: 26, provided the first record for Colima. Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista, and Casas-Andreu, 1999, Cuad. Inst. Biol., UNAM, 32: 29–32, provided an account. Eliosa León, 2002, Bol. Soc. Herpetol. Mexicana, 10: 59–60, reported on geographic variation; see comments under Hyla arboricola and Hyla wrightorum. Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-López, Grünwald, and Avila-López, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 117–120, provided a record for Colima, Mexico. Korky and Webb, 1991, Bull. New Jersey Acad. Sci., 36: 7–12, compared the larval morphology of Hyla eximia, Hyla euphorbiacea, and Hyla plicataLemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 53–54, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Valdes-Lares, Martín-Muñoz de Cote, and Muñiz-Martínez, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 648, provided new records for Durango, Mexico, and discussed the overlap in that state with Hyla wrightorumLemos-Espinal and Smith, 2015, Check List, 11(1642): 1–11, noted the occurrence of the species in Hidalgo, Mexico, without providing a specific locality. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 68–69, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 373–374, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Quezada-Hipólito, Smith, Suazo-Ortuño, Alvarado-Díaz, González, Thammachoti, and Smart, 2019, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 90(e902448): 1–15, commented on the impact of vulcanism in the Trans-Volcanic belt of Mexico on biogeography Ahumada-Carrillo, Grünwald, López Cuellar, and Jones, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 277–278, reported the species from the municipality of Mesquitic, northern Jalisco, Mexico. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico. 

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