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Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985)
Hyla leucopygia Cruz and Peixoto, 1985 "1984", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 7: 39. Holotype: EI 7333, by original designation. Type locality: "Represa do Guinle, Teresópolis, R[io de] J[aneiro]", Brazil.
Aplastodiscus leucopygius — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 82.
English Names
Guinle Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueria in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
Comment
Related to Hyla albosignata according to the original publication. See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 264-265. Call described by Abrunhosa, Pimenta, Cruz, and Haddad, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 275–282. In the Aplastodiscus albosignatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 82. Zina and Haddad, 2006, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 1: 227–236, discussed the acoustic repertoire. Cruz, Feio, and Caramaschi, 2009, Anf. Ibitipoca: 80-81, provided photographs and a brief account for Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Berneck, Segalla, and Haddad, 2017, Herpetol. Notes, 10: 351–254, reported on amplexus. Santos-Pereira, Pombal, and Rocha, 2018, Biota Neotrop., 18 (3: e20170322): 1–19, suggested that isolated records from Paraná, Brazil, require confirmation.
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