Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Boettger, 1893)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Hyalinobatrachinae > Genus: Hyalinobatrachium > Species: Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni

Hylella fleischmanni Boettger, 1893, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1893: 251. Syntypes: SMF; SMF 3760 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 42; considered holotype by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 189. Type locality: "San José, [Canton de San José, Provincia San José,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 105-106, commented on the type locality.

Hylella chrysops Cope, 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46: 196. Syntypes: Originally 252 in Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, now possibly in AMNH, but reported as lost by Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 63, and Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 189. SMF 3760 (holotype of Hylella fleischmanni Boettger) designated neotype by Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 63. Type localities: "Alajuela" and "San José", Costa Rica. Neotype from "San José, [Provincia San José,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 105, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1895, Zool. Rec., 31: 41; Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 166: 287; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 225.

Hyla fleischmanni — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 225.

Centrolenella fleischmanni — Noble, 1924, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 37: 69.

Cochranella chrysops — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 35.

Cochranella fleischmanni — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 34.

Cochranella viridissima — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 34.

Cochranella decorata Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 50. Holotype: KU 37896, by original designation. Type locality: "H[acien]da. La Florencia, about 3 miles west [in error, 3 mi. SSE] of Turrialba, [Cantón de Turrialba,] Cartago Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 91, commented on and corrected the type locality. Synonymy by Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 63.

Cochranella millepunctata Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 53. Holotype: KU 37896, by original designation. Type locality: "La Palma, San José Province, Costa Rica". Synonymy by Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 64.

Cochranella fleischmanni — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 153. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Centrolenella fleischmanni — Goin, 1964, Herpetologica, 20: 1.

Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 24.

English Names

Fleischmann's Glass Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 115; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 118; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 14).

Fleischmann's Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 123). 

Distribution

Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras and Nicaragua and southwards to the Tilarán range and Central Valley in Costa Rica. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua

Comment

Literature prior to 2020, for the most part includes references relevant to Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni, but also to species then-confused with it: Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum and Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi. Therefore, use the following literature with caution (DRF). For discussion see Lynch and Duellman, 1973, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 16: 1-66; Goin, 1964, Herpetologica, 20: 1-8; Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 57-78. In the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species  in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 371-373. Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 9: 6, noted that the records of Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni from Venezuela were attributable to Hyalinobatrachium guairarepanense. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 200-215, provided an account and detailed range map (as Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) for Costa Rica. Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011, Zootaxa, 3132: 1-55, referred all records of nominal Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni from the east side of the Andes to other species. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 121–125, compared the species of Central America and provided an identification key, maps, and photographs (which would include Hyalinobatrachium viridissimus as well as part of Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni). Mendoza, Bolívar-García, Vázquez-Domínguez, Ibáñez D., and Parra-Olea, 2019, PeerJ, 7 (e6115): 1–28, reported on mtDNA phylogeography, identifying three populations which, should nuDNA be congruent, likely will be named as species (now Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum, Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi, and  Hyalinobatrachium viridissimus). Mendoza-Henao, Arias, Townsend, and Parra-Olea, 2020, Syst. Biodiversity, 18: 464–484, redelimited the species (on the basis of DNA, calls, and morphology), partitioning Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum out of former Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni and moving South American records to Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi. 

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