Duellmanohyla salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Duellmanohyla > Species: Duellmanohyla salvadorensis

Hyla salvadorensis Mertens, 1952, Senckenb. Biol., 33: 169. Holotype: SMF 43045, by original designation. Type locality: "Hacienda San José, 800 m H., Metapan-Gebirge, Dept. Santa Ana, El Salvador".

Ptychohyla salvadorensisCampbell and Smith, 1992, Herpetologica, 48: 165.

Duellmanohyla salvadorensis — Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 23. 

English Names

Salvador Stream Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Distribution

Pacific versant from northwestern El Salvador to south-central Honduras and southeastern Guatemala; also along the Atlantic versant headwaters near the Continental Divide in southwestern Honduras, 1440–2050 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Comment

See accounts by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 337–341(as Hyla salvadorensis), Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1006–1009, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 317–350. Köhler, Veselý, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 46–48, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 278. Smith, Arif, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2007, Evolution, 61: 2075–2085, and Wiens, Kuczynski, Hua, and Moen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 873, suggested that Ptychohyla salvadorensis is imbedded within Duellmanohyla and should be transferred to that genus, but did not make the change. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 256–261, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Ptychohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 1–32, transferred this species from Ptychohyla to Duellmanohyla to render the former monophyletic. 

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