Osteocephalus buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus buckleyi

Hyla buckleyi Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 362. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.13.36–38 (formerly 1880.12.5.215–217, Sarayacu), 1947.2.13.39 (formerly 1880.12.5.238, Sarayacu), 1947.2.13.40–45 (formerly 1880.12.5.184–189, Canelos), and 1947.2.13.46 (formerly 1889.12.5.274, Pallatanga), according to museum records; BMNH 1947.2.13.44 designated lectotype by Trueb and Duellman, 1971, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 1: 19. Type locality: "Sarayacu" and "Canelos", Provincia Pastaza, and "Paitanga" (= Pallatanga), Provincia Chimborazo (in error), Ecuador; type locality restricted to Canelos by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 213, and by lectotype designation.

Osteocephalus buckleyiGoin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 13.

Osteocephalus vilmae Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012, ZooKeys, 229: 36. Holotype: CORBIDI 04773, by original designation. Type locality: "Peru, Region Loreto,Provincia Datem del Marañón, Pampa Hermosa (3.0650°S, 75.8264°W), 200 m above sea level". Synonymy by Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42 : 364. 

English Names

Buckley's Slender-legged Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

An arc around the periphery of the Amazon Basin from Colombia through Ecuador and Peru to east-central Bolivia, Acre (Brazil), the Guianas (see comment) and northeastern Brazil (Amapá), at elevations less than 700 m, and to the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: French Guiana

Comment

See Osteocephalus cabrerai account. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 170–171, provided a brief account. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 39–40, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Osteocephalus buckleyiZimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 180–181, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 37–38. It is not clear what the effect on the stated range is with the exclusion of Osteocephalus carri from synonymy (DRF). Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 180–181, provided an account and noted that the taxon represents a complex of species. Ron, Toral, Venegas, and Barnes, 2010, ZooKeys, 70: 67-92, provided a mtDNA tree which had samples of Osteocephalus buckleyi both within and without nominal Osteocephalus verruciger, suggesting either introgressive hybridization or cryptic species. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 160–161. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 409–410, for brief account and records for Guyana. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, characterized the advertisement call. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351–380. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 77, noted that earlier records of Osteocephalus buckleyi from Venezuela are based on misidentifications. Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17, without comment did not consider this species part of the French Guiana fauna. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 110–111, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.

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