Dendropsophus marmoratus (Laurenti, 1768)

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

Bufo marmoratus Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 29. Type(s): By indication frog(s) illustrated as Rana surinamensis by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1: pl. 71, figs. 4, 5. Type locality: "Surinami".

Buffo marmoratusLacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, 16mo ed., 2: 375, 461; Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, Quarto ed., 1: table after page 618, and referencing account on page 607. Rejected as a nonbinominal work by Opinion 2104, Anonymous, 2005, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 62: 55.

Hyla marmorataDaudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 2: 23; Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 184; Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 34.

Calamita marmoratusMerrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 174.

Lophopus marmoratusTschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 73.

Hyla (Lophopus) marmorataFitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.

Hyla marmorata marmorataRivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 126.

Quinzhyla marmorataBauer, 2005, in Ananjeva and Tsinenko (eds.), Herpetol. Petropolitana: 15.

Dendropsophus marmoratusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91.

English Names

Marbled Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Marbled Toad (Lacépède, 1802, Nat. Hist. Ovip. Quadruped. (Kerr transl.): 318).

Distribution

Amazon Basin in Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Pará, and Mato Grosso), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia; southern Venezuela through Guyana and Suriname. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Comment

For account see Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 243–254. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 154–155, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, and Zimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 146–147, provided a brief account and photo. First record for Bolivia by Köhler, 1995, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 17: 6. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 218–220, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 159–160, provided an account. Gomes and Peixoto, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 445, provided a record from Mato Grosso, Brazil, and commented on the Brazilian component of the range. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011, Caldasia, 33: 235–270, illustrated the tadpole and included the species in a key to the tadpoles of Amazonian Colombia. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 118–119. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 400–401, for brief account and records for Guyana. Melo-Sampaio and Souza, 2015, Check List, 11 (Art. 1681): 1–6, provided records from Acre, Brazil.  Teixeira, Seger, Targueta, Orrico, and Lourenço, 2016, Comp. Cytogenet., 10: 753–767, reported on the karyotype as compared to other members of the Dendropsophus marmoratus group.  Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call, as Hyla marmorata. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 74, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 138–139. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus 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. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 54–55, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. French Guiana record was discussed and rejected by Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 102–103, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 443, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru. 

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