Boana steinbachi (Boulenger, 1905)

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

Hyla steinbachi Boulenger, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 16: 182. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.13.61–63 (formerly 1904.10.29.173–175) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 95. Type locality: "Province Sara, Departament Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia"; presumed to be from "Buenavista" within this province as discussed by Fouquet, Marinho, Réjaud, Carvalho, Caminer, Jansen, Rainha, Rodrigues, Werneck, Lima, Hrbek, Giaretta, Venegas, Chávez, and Ron, 2021, Syst. Biodiversity, 19: 380. 

Hypsiboas steinbachi — Caminer and Ron, 2014, ZooKeys, 370: 17. 

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

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Southwestern, central, and eastern Brazilian Amazonia (Acre, Amazonas, and Pará), and southwestern Peruvian Amazonia (Tambopata and the lower Madre de Dios River), to central Bolivia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hypsiboas fasciatus by Caminer and Ron, 2014, ZooKeys, 370: 17, where it had been placed by De la Riva, 1990, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 8: 279. Fouquet, Marinho, Réjaud, Carvalho, Caminer, Jansen, Rainha, Rodrigues, Werneck, Lima, Hrbek, Giaretta, Venegas, Chávez, and Ron, 2021, Syst. Biodiversity, 19: 375–399, provided an emended diagnosis, and placed it in their Boana albopunctata group, Boana calcarata clade, along with descriptions of morphology, advertisement call, and molecular relationships, and who redelimited the range, transferring to this species the Brazilian Amazonian records formerly attached to Boana fasciataRainha, Martinez, Moraes, Castro, Réjaud, Fouquet, Leite, Rodrigues, and Werneck, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 134: 177–197, included this species in their Boana steinbachi clade and discussed phylogenetics and the influence of subtle environmental factors on geographic variation in morphology. Mittan-Moreau, Zamudio, Thomé, Camurugi, Colli, Garda, Haddad, and Prado, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 175 (107579): 1–11, detected a cryptic species associated with this lineage. 

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