Boana caipora (Antunes, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2008)

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

Hypsiboas caipora Antunes, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2008, Copeia, 2008: 180. Holotype: CFBH 7312, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil, São Paulo, Serra do Mar, Serra de Paranapiacaba, Municipality of Pilar do Sul, adult male, 23°56′S, 47°40′W, approx. 780 m above sea level".

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known from the municipalities of Pilar do Sul, Sete Barras, and São Miguel Arcanjo, in the Serra do Mar of southern São Paulo state, Brazil, 700-800 m elevation in Atlantic Forest.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group, and most similar to Hypsiboas semiguttatus, according to the original publication, where the advertisement call and larva were described.

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