Hylomantis granulosa (Cruz, 1989)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Hylomantis > Species: Hylomantis granulosa

Phyllomedusa granulosa Cruz, 1989 "1988", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 11: 41. Holotype: EI 7360, by original designation. Type locality: "Horto Zoobotanico Dois Irmãos, Recife, Estado de Pernambuco", Brazil.

Hylomantis granulosaCruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 720; Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 35. 

Agalychnis granulosaFaivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.

Hylomantis granulosus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 35. Mantis is actually of common gender, masculine or feminine, and Peters by original usage rendered this generic name feminine (DRF). 

English Names

Granular Leaf frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

Distribution

Known from Bahia, Pernambuco, and Alagoas, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Carnaval, Peixoto, and Santos, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 381, for collection records and comment on distribution. In the Hylomantis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. In the Agalychis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Freitas, Silva, Fonseca, and Abreu, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 106: 106, provided the first record for Bahia and discussed the range. Nascimento and Skuk, 2007, Zootaxa, 1663: 59-65, reported on larval morphology. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Reported from the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, Brazil, by Dubeux, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2021, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 61 (e20216176): 1–10, who provided a key to the frogs of that region.      

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