Boana semilineata (Spix, 1824)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana semilineata

Hyla geographica var. semilineata Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 40. Type(s): Not designated although including animal figured on pl. 11, fig. 2 of the original publication; holotype was ZSM 47/0 and now presumed lost according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 370, and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 167. CFBH 5424 designated neotype by Cassundé, Sturaro, Maciel, Lima, Lyra, Rodrigues, Haddad, Aleixo, and Peloso, 2025, Zootaxa, 5660: 519. Type locality: "Provinciae Rio de Janeiro", Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 51, suggested that the type locality is "provàvelmente Rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Neotype from “municipality of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (-22.7856, -43.3117)”,

Centrotelma cryptomelan Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 204. Holotype: MCZ 329, by original designation (now MCZ 1530, according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 237). Type locality: "Bahia", Brazil; "provàvelmente Salvador", Bahia, Brazil according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 24, who discussed the type locality. Synonymy with Hyla punctatissima appendiculata by Parker, 1933, Trop. Agric., Trinidad, 10: 10. Synonymy with Hyla geographica by Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 526; with Boana semilineata by Cassundé, Sturaro, Maciel, Lima, Lyra, Rodrigues, Haddad, Aleixo, and Peloso, 2025, Zootaxa, 5660: 505–528.

Cophomantis punctillata Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870: 651. Holotype: ZMB 6953, according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 41. Type locality: "S[an]ta. Catharina (Brasiliens)", Brazil. Synonymy with Hyla punctatissima appendiculata by Parker, 1933, Trop. Agric., Trinidad, 10: 10. Synonymy with Hyla geographica by Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 526; with Boana semilineata by Cassundé, Sturaro, Maciel, Lima, Lyra, Rodrigues, Haddad, Aleixo, and Peloso, 2025, Zootaxa, 5660: 505–528.

Hyla cryptomelas — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 350. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name.

Hyla (Hylella) punctillata — Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772.

Hyla punctillata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 359.

Hyla cryptomelan — Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 237.

Hyla semilineata — Silveira and Caramaschi, 1989, Resumos 16a Congr. Brasil. Zool. Univ. Fed. Paraiba: XXX. d'Heursel and de Sá, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 353; Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 41.

Hypsiboas semilineatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89.

Boana semilineata — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28. 

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Brazil in the coastal region from Alagoas to Santa Catarina. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 526-530, and Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 34-37. Silveira and Caramaschi, 1989, Resumos 16a Congr. Brasil. Zool. Univ. Fed. Paraiba: XXX, resurrected this taxon from the synonymy of Hyla geographica, where it had been originally placed and more recently by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 51. See discussion of taxonomic history and further evidence of distinctiveness by d'Heursel and de Sá, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 353-361. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 41, provided a brief account and photo of Hyla semilineata. In the Hypsiboas semilineatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89. Fouquet, Martinez, Zeidler, Courtois, Gaucher, Blanc, Lima, Marques-Souza, Rodrigues, and Kok, 2016, Zootaxa, 4084: 79–104, noted at least 5 unnamed species in Brazil and the Guiana Shield that presumably will be named in the near future. Dubeux, Silva, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2019, Rev. Nordestina Zool., 12: 18–52, summarized the literature on larval morphology. See Dubeux, Nascimento, Lima, Magalhães, Silva, Gonçalves, Almeida, Correia, Garda, Mesquita, Rossa-Feres, and Mott, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (2: e20180718): 1–24, for characterization and identification of larvae north of the Rio São Francisco in the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Reported from the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, Brazil, by Dubeux, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2021, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 61 (e20216176): 1–10, who provided a key to the frogs of that region. Pezzuti, Leite, Rossa-Feres, and Garcia, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 22 (Special Issue): 1–109, described and discussed larval morphology and natural history. Manzano, Takeno, and Sawaya, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 453–472, reported on the advertisement call from São Paulo, Brazil. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 112, noted that records from Amapá, Brazil, apply to an unnamed candidate species (Boana aff. semilineata) or to Boana diabolica. Bastos and Zina, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 365–376, reported the species from Jequié municipality, Bahia, Brazil, and briefly discussed its habitat and conservation status. Fadel, Silva, Rodrigues, Brandão, Santana, and Mângia, 2025 , Zootaxa, 5618: 14, reported Boana sp. (aff. semilineata) from the state of Tocantins, Brazil.

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