Trachycephalus coriaceus (Peters, 1867)

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Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Lophyohylinae > Genus: Trachycephalus > Species: Trachycephalus coriaceus

Hyla coriacea Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 711. Syntypes: ZMB 5807 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 153, and Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 42. Type locality: "Surinam".

Phrynohyas coriacea — Duellman, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 205.

Trachycephalus coriaceus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 111.

English Names

Surinam Golden-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Surinam Casque-heded Treefrog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 208).

Distribution

French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, and Upper Amazon Basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and downstream into Rondônia and Amazonia, near Manaus, Brazil.

Comment

Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 190-191, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 41–42, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Phrynohyas coriacea. Zimmerman and Rodrigues, 1990, in Gentry (ed.), Four Neotropical Rainforests: 426-454, provided the first central Brazilan Amazonia record for this species, near Manaus. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 58-588, reported this species from the region of Leticia, Colombia. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 208-209, provided an account. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 192-195.See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 418-419, for brief account and records for Guyana. Meneghelli, Dorazio, and Calderon, 2017, Herpetol. Notes, 10: 75–78, provided the first records for Rondônia, Brazil.

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