Boana cinerascens (Spix, 1824)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana cinerascens

Hyla cinerascens Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 35. Type(s): Not specifically designated, but including animal figured in pl. 8, fig. 4 in the original publication; syntypes were ZSM 2498/0 (2 specimens), destroyed, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 26; Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366 (although only one specimen implied in original publication); and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 166. MPEG 40282 designated neotype by Sturaro, Costa, Maciel, Lima, Rojas-Runjaic, Mejia, Ron, and Peloso, 2020, Zootaxa, 4750: 6. Type locality: "Ecgá prope flumen Teffe" (= Ega, Tefé), Amazonas, Brazil. Neotype from "Tefé (03°16’47”S and 64°45’09”W), Amazonas, Brazil". Synonymy with Hyla albomarginata by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 226; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 260. Placed in the synonymy of Hyla granosa by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366, who suggested that an application to the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature would be necessary to retain the priority of Hyla granosa.

Hypsiboas cinerascens — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201.

Hyla granosa Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 358. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.12.93 (formerly 72.10.16.45) (Demerara Falls), 1947.2.12.94-96 (formerly 75.10.22.7-9) (Santarém), 1947.2.12.97-98 (formerly 74.7.16.5-6) (Interior of Brazil), 1947.2.12.99 formerly 80.12.5.181) (Canelos) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 91; BMNH 1947.2.12.99 designated lectotype by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 8. Type locality: "Demerara Falls", Guyana; "Santarem", Pará, Brazil; "Interior of Brasil"; "Canelos, [Provincia Pastaza,] Ecuador". Restricted to Canelos by lectotype designation.

Hyla inornata Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 70. Nomen nudum according to Duellman, 1974, Copeia, 1974: 285. Synonymy by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 8.

Hypsiboas cinerascens — Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 9: 13.

Hypsiboas granosus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

Boana cinerascens — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28. 

Common Names

Demerara Falls Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).

Distribution

Guianas and Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

For accounts see Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 99, and Hoogmoed, 1979, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 172: 1-46, and Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 148–150 (who also  characterized of call and tadpole). Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, and Zimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 28, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Hyla granosa. De la Riva, Márquez, and Bosch, 1997, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 47: 175–185, reported on the call, as Hyla granosa. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 132-133, provided a brief account and photo. In the Hypsiboas punctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 209–211, provided (as Hyla granosa) an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). Fouquet, Gilles, Vences, Marty, Blanc, and Gemmell, 2007, PLoS One, 10 (e1109): 1–10, provided molecular evidence that this is a species complex (as Hypsiboas granosa). Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 168-169, provided an account and noted an unnamed species in Guyana that has been confused with this species. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 136-139. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 403-404, for brief account and records for Guyana. Señaris, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 148–149, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. Batallas-Revelo and Brito-M., 2016, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 87: 1292–1300, reported on vocalizations from Sangay National Park, southeastern Ecuador.  Motta, Menin, Almeida, and Hrbek, 2018, Zootaxa, 4438: 79–104, on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence divergence suggested that this nominal species is composed of at least two lineages, one in central Amazonia and the other in the Guianas. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 63, for comments on range, taxonomy (noting via personal communications from D. Pareja and P. Kok that this name covers a complex of species), and literature. For identification of larvae (as Hyla granosa) in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. Sturaro, Costa, Maciel, Lima, Rojas-Runjaic, Mejia, Ron, and Peloso, 2020, Zootaxa, 4750: 1–30, discussed the complex nature of this complex, resurrecting the species name Boana gracilis. Silva, Carvalho, Pereira Silva, Fadel, Dantas, Brandão, and Santana, 2020, Biota Neotrop., 20 (1: e20190838): 16, reported the species from the state of Tocantins, Brazil. 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. 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.: 160–161. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 41–43, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history in central Amazonia, Brazil. 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: 88–89, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. 

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