Dendropsophus bifurcus (Andersson, 1945)

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

Hyla (Hylella) bifurca Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 79. Holotype: NHRM 1962 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 37. Type locality: "Rio Pastaza", eastern Ecuador.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Acre, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. See Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 15, and De la Riva, 1990, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 8: 273. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 130–131, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 23–24, provided a brief account (as Hyla bifurca) for the Iquitos region of Peru.  De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 32, noted considerable difference between the Ecuadorian and Bolivian populations. In the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus 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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