Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Hyloscirtus > Species: Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus

Hyla albopunctulata Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 385. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens) by original designation; including BMNH 1880.12.5.159–162, 1880.12.5.230 according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 87. Type locality: "Sarayacu", Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador (in error?) (1 specimen) and "Ecuador" (4 specimens).

Hyloscirtus albopunctulatusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84.

Boana albopunctulataWiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, by implication.

English Names

White-speckled Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador and Peru into extreme southeastern Amazonas, Colombia; expected in adjacent Brazil. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil

Comment

See comment under Hyla palmeri, with which it was formerly confused. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84. See comment under Hypsiboas nympha. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 581–588, reported the species from the vicinity of Leticia, Colombia; presumably present in Amazonas, Brazil, near the Colombia localities. 

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