Boana balzani (Boulenger, 1898)

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

Hyla balzani Boulenger, 1898, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 19: 132. Holotype: not stated; MSNG 28872 according to Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 213. Type locality: "Prov. Yungas, at 1600 metres altitude", Bolivia.

Hypsiboas balzaniFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

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

English Names

Yungas Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Distribution

Cloud forests at elevations of 1200-2210 m on the eastern slopes of the Andes from central Peru to the Yungas de La Paz, Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Peru

Comment

In the Hyla pulchella group according to Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 1-41, who provided an account (in the sense of including Hyla callipleura as a synonym). In the Hyla pulchella group of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 938-950. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 31, suggested that Hyla balzani is a composite and that Hyla callipleura possibly should be resurrected. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 99, made the resurrection of Hyla callipleura. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87-88. See comments by Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010, Zool. Scripta, 39: 572-590, on the nomenclatural difficulties with assigning a name to this population and possible confusion with Hypsiboas callipleura. Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010, Zool. Scripta, 39: 578, noted that the terminal assigned to this species by Faivovich et al., 2005, and Wiens et al., 2010, actually corresponds to Hypsiboas callipleura.

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