Dendropsophus acreanus (Bokermann, 1964)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus acreanus

Hyla acreana Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 244. Holotype: WCAB 1363, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Tarauacá, Acre, Brazil".

Hyla senicula acreanaLutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 91.

Hyla acreanaHeyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 141-162.

Dendropsophus acreanusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91.

English Names

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

Distribution

Western Brazil (Acre and Amazonas), northern Bolivia, and southeastern Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Comment

In the former Hyla marmorata group; see Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 142. See comment under Dendropsophus senicula. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range.  Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil.Teixeira, Seger, Targueta, Orrico, and Lourenço, 2016, Comp. Cytogenet., 10: 753–767, reported on the karyotype as compared to other members of the Dendropsophus marmoratus group. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 130–131. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. 

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