Hyla carthaginiensis Dufresnes, Beddek, Skorinov, Fumagalli, Perrin, Crochet, and Litvinchuk, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Hyla > Species: Hyla carthaginiensis

Hyla carthaginiensis Dufresnes, Beddek, Skorinov, Fumagalli, Perrin, Crochet, and Litvinchuk, 2019, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 134: 296. Holotype: ZISP 13722, by original designation. Type locality: "near Qusur Lireba, 10 km SSE of Tabarka, Tunisia (36.868°N, 8.728°E, 113m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: 16C1D704-8906-4E84-A0D1-345FF9F8A664

Hyla numidica Escoriza and Ben Hassine, 2019, Amph. N. Afr.: 190. Types: not explicitly designated. Type locality: "Nefza (Tunisia)”. Unavailable name as discussed by Dufresnes and Crochet, 2020, Zootaxa, 4759: 597–599. 

Common Names

Carthaginian Tree Frog (original publication). 

Distribution

Humid Mediterranean regions of northeastern Algeria and northern Tunisia. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Algeria, Tunisia

Comment

The sister taxon of Hyla meridionalis according to the original publication. Stöck, Dufresnes, Litvinchuk, Lymberakis, Biollay, Berroneau, Borzée, Ghali, Ogielska, and Perrin, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 1–9, reported on the genetic diversity among populations and provided a dot map of the range (including their "Hyla new sp. 1", subsequently named as Hyla carthaginiensis. See Dufresnes and Crochet, 2020, Zootaxa, 4759: 597–599, for range map. Dufresnes, Berroneau, Dubey, Litvinchuk, and Perrin, 2020, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 10 (5502): 1–10, discussed the genetics of the contact zone of this species with Hyla meridionalis. Nouira, Blanc, Crochet, Frétey, Géniez, Ineich, De Massary, Ohler, Tlili, and Lescure, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 180: 12, discussed the species in Tunisia.  

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