Hyloscirtus tapichalaca (Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Hyloscirtus > Species: Hyloscirtus tapichalaca

Hyla tapichalaca Kizirian, Coloma, and Paredes-Recalde, 2003, Herpetologica, 59: 340. Holotype: QCAZ 14611, by original designation. Type locality: "from a small stream on the road between Yangana and Valladolid, Reserva Tapichalaca, Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador; 04° 28′ S, 79° 08′ W; 2667 m".

Hyloscirtus tapichalacaFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85; Rojas-Runjaic, Infante-Rivero, Salerno, and Meza-Joya, 2018, Zootaxa, 4382: 121.

Boana tapichalacaWiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, by implication.

Colomascirtus tapichalaca — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 30. 

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (road between Yangana and Valladolid, Reserva Tapichalaca, Provincia Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador; 04° 28′ S, 79° 08′ W; 2667 m).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Not assignable to species group, although intermediate between the Hyla larinopygion and Hyla pulchella groups according to the original publication; the authors also noted (p. 348) that the Hyla larinopygion group is not diagnosable, contra Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 36, excluding Hyla armata. Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 943, demonstrated, on the basis of molecular characters, a close relationshiop with Hyla armata in the Hyla larinopygion group. In the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.

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