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Boana alemani (Rivero, 1964)
Hyla alemani Rivero, 1964, Caribb. J. Sci., 4: 302. Holotype: MHNLS 238, by original designation. Type locality: "Cagua, Edo. Aragua", Venezuela.
Hypsiboas alemani — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.
Boana alemani — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.
Common Names
Cagua Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).
Distribution
Known from Venezuela from Cagua (Cordillera de la Costa, Aragua State), Kunana, Sierra de Perija (Zulia State [doubtful, see comment]), and Hato Los Arrecifes (Guárico State) as well as the states of Cojedes and Falcón. See comment.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Venezuela
Endemic: Venezuela
Comment
Closely allied to Hyla granosa, according to the original publication, or a possible synonym, according to Rivero, 1967, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27: 7-8. In the Hypsiboas punctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 61–62, for comments on range and literature as well as taxonomy, including the suggestion that the holotype (likely conspecific with Boana punctata, in agreement with La Marca, 1992, Cuad. Geograf., Mérida, 9: 1–197) and paratype (possibly a juvenile Boana xerophylla) are probably not conspecific.
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