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Dendropsophus melanargyreus (Cope, 1887)
Hyla melanargyrea Cope, 1887, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 24: 45. Syntypes: ANSP 11216-18, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351. Type locality: "at or near . . . . Chupada [= Chapada dos Guimarães], thirty miles north-east of Cuyabá, and near the headwaters of the Xingu, an important tributary of the Amazon", Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Hyla marmorata melanargyrea — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 127.
Hyla senicula melanargyrea — Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 89.
Hyla senicula attenuata Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 91. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 101.
Hyla melanargyrea — Caramaschi and Jim, 1983, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 43: 198.
Dendropsophus melanargyreus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91.
English Names
Interior Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Interior basins of Goiás and Mato Grosso to São Paulo and northeastern Brazil; Suriname and French Guiana; reported in the Departamento de Santa Cruz in Bolivia and the pantanal of northeastern Paraguay (Alto Paraguay province).
Comment
See comment under Hyla senicula. See account by Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 243-254. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 148-149, provided a brief account and photo. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Cacciali and Scott, 2004, Cuad. Herpetol., 18: 73-74, provided a record for Paraguay. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 8, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Silva, Prado, and Rossa-Feres, 2010, Check List, 6: 402-404, provided a range extension to the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and provided a range map. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 120-121. Schulze, Jansen, and Köhler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4016: 26–27, characterized and pictured the larva. 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. Neves, Yves, Pereira Silva, Alves, Vasques, Coelho, and Silva, 2019, Herpetozoa, Wien, 32: 113–123, provided habitat information and a record for western Minas Gerais, Brazil. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 71, provided an account. 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.
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