Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Agalychnis > Species: Agalychnis medinae

Phyllomedusa medinae Funkhouser, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 588. Holotype: EBRG 37, by original designation. Type locality: "the biological station 'Henry Pittier' . . . . Estacion Biologica de Rancho Grande (Edo. Aragua, Venezuela)".

Phyllomedusa medinaiRivero, 1967, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27: 9; Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1–40. Unjustified emendation.

Hylomantis medinaiFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115.

Agalychnis medinaeFaivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.

English Names

Rancho Grande Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

In the cloud forests of the west-central part of the Cordillera de la Costa at Bejuma in Carabobo, Rancho Grande in Aragua, and in Cerro Zapatero and Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See account by Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1-40. In the Hylomantis buckelyi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. Unassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed why the name medinae is not emendable. Barrio-Amorós, 2009, Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat., 171: 19-46, commented on the biology and range within Venezuela, as Hylomantis medinaiHertz and Lotzkat, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 121–124, reported on vocalization. Rojas-Runjaic, Camargo-Siliet, Bolaños, Mora, Aular, and García, 2014, Check List, 10: 392–394, discussed the range and provided a range extension to the Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 105, for comments on range, extinction at the type locality, and literature.

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