Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra (Taylor, 1948)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Ecnomiohyla > Species: Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra

Hyla fimbrimembra Taylor, 1948, Copeia, 1948: 235. Holotype: R.C. Taylor 764, by original designation; now FMNH 191784 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 51. Type locality: "Isla Bonita (The American Cicnona Plantation), on the Caribbean slope of Volcán Poas, [Heredia Province,] Costa Rica". Type locality discussed by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 71-122.

Hyla richardi Taylor, 1948, Copeia, 1948: 233. Holotype: R. C. Taylor 761, by original designation; now FMNH 191783 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 52. Type locality: "2 miles W. of Isla Bonita (The American Cinchona Plantation) on the Caribbean slope of Volcán Poas, [Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela,] Costa Rica". Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 80. Junior primary homonym of Hyla richardi Baird, 1854. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 348.

Hyla richardtaylori Taylor, 1954, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 36: 624. Replacement name for Hyla richardi Taylor, 1948.

Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembraFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

English Names

Heredia Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).

Distribution

Elevations of 500–1500 m on the Caribbean and Pacific slopes of the Central Highlands and the Cordillera de Tilarán in Costa Rica and from 1600–1700 m on the Pacific slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca in extreme western Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

See Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1–127; Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 348–350; Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 898–899; and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 332–334. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Hyla fimbrimembra) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 245. Ibáñez D., Jaramillo, Solís, and Jaramillo, 1991, Herpetol. Rev., 22: 133–134, provided a specific locality in Panama. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 222–226, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Ecnomiohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species.

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