Boana punctata (Schneider, 1799)

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

Calamita punctatus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 170. Syntypes: In "Museo Academico Upsalensi" (= ZUU) and "Museo Petropolitano" (= ZISP) and frog illustrated by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1: pl. 71, fig. 3 (possibly ZMB 3100, now lost, according to Bauer and Günther, 2013, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 89: 175, ZFMK 28967, according to Böhme, 2014, Mertensiella, 21: 97). Type locality: "Surinam".

Hyla punctataDaudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 41; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208, 214.

Hyla papillaris Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 34. Type(s): Not specifically designated but including animal figured on pl. 8, fig. 2 of the original publication; syntypes formerly in ZSM, now lost, according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 168. Type locality: "prope Ecgam ad flumen Solimoens" = Ega, Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208, 226; Günther, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872: 662. Synonymy considered doubtful by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, and Lavilla, 1994 "1992", Acta Zool. Lilloana, 42: 72. See discussion by Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 144.

Hyla variolosa Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 34. Type(s): Not designated, but including animal figured in pl. 9, fig. 4 in the original publication; including ZSM 2495/0 (actually 2496/0 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 170), now lost, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 90, who considered in error it as holotype, and RMNH. RMNH 1879 designated lectotype by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366. Type locality: "fluminis Amazonum" (= Rio Amazonas), Brazil. Tentative synonymy by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 552. Synonymy by Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 104; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 357; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 214, 226. See discussion by Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 144.

Hysaplesia punctata —Boie In Schlegel, 1826, Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol., Paris, Ser. 2, 9: 239. See Stejneger, 1937, Copeia, 1937: 139.

Auletris variolosaWagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.

Scinax variolosaWagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.

Hypsiboas (Scinax) punctataFitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.

Hyla (Hyla) punctataBurmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 104.

Hypsiboas punctatusCope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 201.

Hyla rhodoporus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 488. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation; BMNH 1947.2.23.5 (Upper Amazon) regarded in error as holotype by Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94; Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 172: 42, formally designated BMNH 1947.2.23.5 lectotype. Type locality: "Upper Amazon" and "Surinam"; restricted to "Upper Amazon" by lectotype designation. Synonymy by Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 403; Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 208; Günther, 1872, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872: 663.

Hylella pearsei Ruthven, 1922, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 8: 57. Holotype: UMMZ 54639, by original designation and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 17. Type locality: "Fundación, Santa Marta Mountains, [Departament of Magdalena,] Colombia". Synonymy by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 222.

Hyla pearseiDunn, 1944, Caldasia, 2: 516.

Hyla punctata rubro-lineata Lutz, 1951, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 47: 307. Syntypes: AL-MNRJ 4698–99, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 90. Type locality: "Buena Vista, [Departamento Sant Cruz,] Bolivia". Synonymy by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 10.

Hyla rubeola Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 225. Holotype: USNM 152751, by original designation. Type locality: "Serranía de La Macarena, Department of Meta, Colombia". Synonymy by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 10. Junior homonym of Hyla rubeola Péron, 1807 (species inquirenda and nomen oblitum).

Hyla punctata rubrolineataCei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 482–484.

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

Hypsiboas punctatus punctatusBrusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9, by implication.

Hypsiboas punctatus rubrolineatusBrusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9.

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

English Names

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

Dotted Treefrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).

Distribution

Seasonally flooded forest of the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil and the Orinoco Basin; central Brazil; Paraguay, and Argentina; Guianas and Amapá (Brazil), northern Colombia in the Sierra Santa Marta, and the open lowlands of Venezuela (Amazonas, Apure, Bolívar, and Sucre) and Trinidad, except for the Maracaibo Lake Basin.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

Comment

Hyla punctata rubrolineata Lutz, 1951, was considered by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 482–484, to be a distinct species.  Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 158–159, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole.See Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 365, for discussion. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 136–137, provided a brief account and photo. Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 40–42, and Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 72–73, provided accounts for the Trinidad and Tobago populations. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. Chacón-Ortiz and Diaz de Pascual, 2002, Herpetol. Rev., 33: 145, provided localities for Venezuela. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 35. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 33, commented on the range in Venezuela. Camargo-Siliet, Rivero, and La Marca, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 282, commented on the range in Venezuela. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 222–223, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). In the Hypsiboas punctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88. Napoli and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 283–288, discussed evidence from calls that suggests that Hyla punctata rubrolineata may be a distinct species, Hypsiboas rubrolineata. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 9–10, briefly discused the range in Paraguay. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 158–159. Kolenc, Borteiro, Alcalde, Baldo, Cardozo, and Faivovich, 2008, Zootaxa, 1927: 1–66, reported on larval morphology (as Hypsiboas punctatus rubrolineatus). França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011, Caldasia, 33: 235–270, illustrated the tadpole and included the species in a key to the tadpoles of Amazonian Colombia. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 407, for brief account and records for Guyana. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 66, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. Brunetti, Taboada, and Faivovich, 2015, J. Herpetol., 49: 46–52, reported on the extended vocal repertoire. Fouquet, Vacher, Kadosoe, Jairam, and Ouboter, 2015, Herpetol. Notes, 8: 63–68, reported the species from the Sipaliwini Nature Reserve, southern Surinam. Schulze, Jansen, and Köhler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4016: 38–39, described, diagnosed, and pictured the larva of their Dendropsophus punctatus A from Bolivia, which they suggested is not conspecific with populations from French Guiana. Guarnizo, Paz, Muñoz-Ortiz, Flechas-Hernández, Méndez-Narváez, and Crawford, 2016, PLoS One, 10(5: e0127312): 1–20, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that two species likely exist in Colombia under this binomial. Acosta-Galvis, 2017, Biota Colomb., 18: 282–315, reported the species from the Municipality of Yopal, Casanare Department, Colombia. Taboada, Brunetti, Alexandre, Lagorio, and Faivovich, 2017, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 12: 1–13, discussed fluorescence of this species under UV-A/blue light. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call, as Hyla punctataSeñaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 162–163, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. Lima, Dubeux, Nascimento, Bruschi, and Mott, 2019, Amphibia-Reptilia, 40: 511–521, suggested that Boana punctata is a species complex. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 51–52, provided an account. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 170–171 (as Hypsiboas punctatus). Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 47–48, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 94–95, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 443, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.  

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