Cruziohyla sylviae Gray, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Cruziohyla > Species: Cruziohyla sylviae

Cruziohyla sylviae Gray, 2018, Zootaxa, 4450: 405. Holotype: BMNH 2018.5509, by original designation. Type locality: "Alto Colorado: Guayacán: District of Siquirres: Limón Province: Costa Rica, 700 m a.s.l." Zoobank publication registration: 54B89172-7983-40EB-89E9-6964A4D4D5AC

English Names

Sylvia's Tree Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Low to mid elevations (below 750 m) along the Cordillera Central of Central America, primarily along the Atlantic versant, from Darien Province in southern Panama through Costa Rica and Nicaragua to southern Honduras.  

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

Previously confused with Cruziohyla calcarifer according to the original publication. See comment under Cruziohyla calcarifer, noting literature that may refer to this species in whole or in part. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 226–231, provided an account as Agalychnis calcariferMcCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, summarized the departmental distribution, as Cruziohyla calcarifer, in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations (as Cruziohyla calcarifer). Donnelly, Guyer, Krempels, and Braker, 1987, Copeia, 1987: 247–250, reported on larval morphology (as Agalychnis calcarifer), this being of the subsequently named Cruziohyla silviae according to Gray, Taupp, Denés, Elsner-Gearing, and Bewick, 2021, Herpetol. J., 31: 170–176. 

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