Dendropsophus aperomeus (Duellman, 1982)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus aperomeus

Hyla aperomea Duellman, 1982, Amphibia-Reptilia, 3: 153. Holotype: KU 181812, by original designation. Type locality: "8 km NNE (by road) of Balzapata, 1850 m, Departamento Amazónas, Perú (05° 46′ S, 74° 47′ W)".

Dendropsophus aperomeusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 92.

English Names

Balzapata Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of Andes in northern and central Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

In the Dendropsophus minimus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 92-93. The Hyla minima group should be placed within the Hyla parviceps group according to Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 859. See comment under Dendropsophus relating to the status of the minimus group. In the Dendropsophus minutus group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105.

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