Boana claresignata (Lutz and Lutz, 1939)

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

Hyla claresignata Lutz and Lutz, 1939, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 11: 67. Holotype: Not stated; AL-MNRJ 1971 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 47. Type locality: "Fazendo of Messrs Guinle, in Theresopolis, State of Rio de Janeiro", Brazil.

Bokermannohyla claresignataFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 83.

Boana claresignata — Lyra, Lourenço, Pinheiro, Pezzuti, Baêta, Barlow, Hofreiter, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2020, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 190: 1235.

English Names

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

Distribution

Serra do Mar in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Paraná, southeastern Brazil.

Comment

See Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 86; and Bokermann, 1972, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 32: 291-295; and Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 467-469, for discussion. Records of this species from Argentina have been referred to Hypsiboas semiguttatus by Carrizo, 1991 "1990", Cuad. Herpetol., 5: 32-39. In the Bokermannohyla claresignata group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 83. Lyra, Lourenço, Pinheiro, Pezzuti, Baêta, Barlow, Hofreiter, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2020, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 190: 1235–1255, provided evidence that this species is in Boana, with Boana clepsydra forming the Boana claresignata group. The authors also reported on morphology

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