Boana rhythmica (Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2002)

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

Hyla rhythmicus Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2002, J. Herpetol., 36: 635. Holotype: MHNLS 12957, by original designation. Type locality: "Cerro Jaua, Parque Nacional Jaua-Sarisariñama, Bolívar state, Venezuela (04° 49′ 55″ N, 64° 25′ 54″ W), 1600 m".

Hyla rhythmicaDubois, Crombie, and Glaw, 2005, Alytes, 23: 35. Correction of gender of species name.

Hypsiboas rhythmicusFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87.

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

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Cerro Jaua, Parque Nacional Jaua-Sarisariñama, Bolívar state, Venezuela, 04° 49′ 55″ N, 64° 25′ 54″ W, 1600 m).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

Most similar to Hyla benitezi and Hyla lemai according to the original publication. In the Hypsiboas benitezi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86-87. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 67–68, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. 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.  

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