Stefania Rivero, 1968

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Stefania
23 species

Stefania Rivero, 1968 "1966", Caribb. J. Sci., 6: 142. Type species: Hyla evansi Boulenger, 1904, by original designation.

Common Names

Stefania Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Stefanias (Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed.: 497).

Distribution

Highlands of the Guiana Shield in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.

Comment

Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1984, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 75 1–39, revised the genus and provided a cladogram of the species. Two species groups, based on overall similarity, were defined by Rivero, 1970, Bol. Soc. Venezol. Cienc. Nat., 28: 456–481. See accounts for Venezuelan species in Señaris Vasquez, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997 "1996", Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 7: 1–57. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2002, Herpetologica, 58: 327–346, discussed the genus in Guyana. Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Curr. Biol., 22: R589–R590, and Kok, MacCulloch, Means, Roelants, Van Bocxlaer, and Bossuyt, 2012, Current. Biol., Suppl. Inform., 22: 1–25, provided a molecular tree of tepui populations. Salerno, Ron, Señaris Vasquez, Rojas-Runjaic, Noonan, and Cannatella, 2012, Evolution, 66:3000–3013, provided a molecular tree of the species. Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of life history, diagnosis, and taxonomy. Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs, provided a review of their biology and evolution, his phylogenetic analysis immediately superseded by Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, De la Riva, Pombal, Silva, Rojas-Runjaic, Medina-Méndez, and Frost, 2015, Zootaxa, 4004: 1–72, who provided a phylogenetic analysis of the species and related genera and noted a number of unnamed species. Kok, Russo, Ratz, Means, MacCulloch, Lathrop, Aubret, and Bossuyt, 2017, J. Biogeograph., 44: 170–181, provided a molecular phylogeny and biogeography and noted several unnamed species. Kok, 2024, Zool. Lett., 10(14): 1–21, provided a molecular tree (nu- and mt-DNA) of the species within the genus. 

Contained taxa (23 sp.):

Stefania ackawaio MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2002
Stefania ayangannae MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2002
Stefania breweri Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes-Ramos, 2003
Stefania coxi MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2002
Stefania evansi (Boulenger, 1904)
Stefania ginesi Rivero, 1968
Stefania goini Rivero, 1968
Stefania imawari Kok, 2024
Stefania lathropae Kok, 2023
Stefania maccullochi Kok, 2023
Stefania marahuaquensis (Rivero, 1961)
Stefania neblinae Carvalho, MacCulloch, Bonora, and Vogt, 2010
Stefania oculosa Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997
Stefania percristata Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997
Stefania riae Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1984
Stefania riveroi Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997
Stefania roraimae Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1984
Stefania satelles Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997
Stefania scalae Rivero, 1970
Stefania schuberti Señaris, Ayarzagüena, and Gorzula, 1997
Stefania tamacuarina Myers and Donnelly, 1997
Stefania upuigmae Kok, 2024
Stefania woodleyi Rivero, 1968

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