Boana riojana (Koslowsky, 1895)

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

Hyla zebra Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 575. Syntypes: MNHNP 4817 (1 specimen extant), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 24. Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 27, reported 2 specimens. Lescure, Bour, Ineich, Ohler, and Ortiz, 2002, C. R. Palevol, Paris, 1: 531, reported MNHNP 4817 and 1989.3608 as syntypes. Type locality: "Buénos-Ayres", Argentina. Given as "montagnes séparant Chuquisaca du Rio Grandé [sic] près de Tocapaya, Bolivie" by Lescure, Bour, Ineich, Ohler, and Ortiz, 2002, C. R. Palevol, Paris, 1: 531. Junior primary homonym of Rana zebra Shaw, 1802.

Hyla riojana Koslowsky, 1895, Rev. Mus. La Plata, 6: 360. Types: Deposition not noted but presumably originally in the MLP. Type locality: "en una fuente se llamaba 'Aguadita' en el camino de Patquia á Chilecito, unos quince leguas de este pueblito[, ] Provincia de la Rioja", Argentina.

Hyla albonigra Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 278. Replacement name for Hyla zebra Duméril and Bibron, 1841. Synonymy with Hyla riojana by Faivovich, Pinheiro, Lyra, Pereyra, Baldo, Muñoz-Saravia, Reichle, Brandão, Giaretta, Thomé, Chaparro, Baêta, Widholzer, Baldo, Lehr, Wheeler, Garcia, and Haddad, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 155 (106981): 15. 

Hyla raddiana andina Müller, 1924, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 77. Holotype: ZSM 5/1922 by original designation (not syntypes as noted by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 89), lost, according to Langone and Lavilla, 2002, Cuad. Herpetol., 16: 75, who designated as neotype FML 11174. Type locality: "Caspinchango, Valle Calchaqui (Prov. Catamarca), Argentinien". Neotype from "Caspinchango, Catamarca, Argentina, 27° 04′ S, 65° 30′ W (coincidente con la localidad tipo establecida por Müller, 1924)". Synonymy with Hyla albonigra by Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010, Zool. Scripta, 39: 572–590. 

Hyla ocapia Andersson, 1939 "1938", Ark. Zool., 30(23): 19. Syntypes: NHRM 1873 (7 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 80. Type locality: "Puka Khara, Southern Bolivia". Synonymy with Hyla albonigra by Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 1-41.

Hyla pulchella riojanaBarrio, 1965, Physis, Buenos Aires, 25: 122.

Hyla pulchella andinaBarrio, 1965, Physis, Buenos Aires, 25: 124.

Hyla pulchella cochabambae Gallardo, 1988, Amph. Rept., Buenos Aires, 1: 105–111. Nomen nudum. See Langone and Lavilla, 2002, Cuad. Herpetol., 16: 73.

Hyla varelae Carrizo, 1992, Cuad. Herpetol., 7: 20. Holotype: MACN 1010, by original designation. Type locality: "Chaco, camino Selva del Río de Oro, al almacén del descvío de la Ruta", Argentina; corrected to "most likely collected in Horco Molle, Yerba Buena, Tucuman, Argentina" by Pinheiro, Carrizo, and Faivovich, 2019, Zool. Anz., 283: 186, who also made the synonymy. 

Hyla andinaDuellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 19.

Hyla riojanaFaivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 945.

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

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

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

Hypsiboas varelae — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89.

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

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

Boana varelae — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28

 

Common Names

Carrizo's Treefrog (Boana varelae [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

White-black Treefrog (Hyla albonigra [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Paku Khara Treefrog (Hyla ocapia [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Distribution

Eastern Andes and the Andean precordilleras from northern  Bolivia southward to the province of Catamarca and La Rioja, Argentina, at elevations of 1650–3416 m in the north and 500–1640 m in the south; possibly into adjacent Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Bolivia

Comment

In the Hyla pulchella group of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 938–950. (This is the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87–88.) Removed from the synonymy of Hyla pulchella by Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 945, where it had been placed by Barrio, 1965, Physis, Buenos Aires, 25: 122. Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 945, also noted the possibility that Hyla andina might be conspecific with Hyla riojana. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87–88. Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 945, noted that possibility that Hyla andina might be conspecific with Hyla riojana. Koscinski, Handford, Tubaro, Sharp, and Lougheed, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 2012–2025, suggested that Hypsiboas riojanus is nested within nominal Hypsiboas andinus (which might represent more than one species) and Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, and De la Riva, 2010, Zool. Scripta, 39: 572–590, came to the same conclusion and considered them conspecific. See Barrio, 1965, Physis, Buenos Aires, 25: 115–128 (as Hyla andinus). See Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 3: 19, who provided an account (as Hyla andinus). De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 31, noted some misidentifications in the literature. See brief account as Hypsiboas andinus by Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 95–96. Koscinski, Handford, Tubaro, Sharp, and Lougheed, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 2012–2025, suggested that Hypsiboas riojanus is nested within nominal Hypsiboas andinus (which might represent more than one species). Kolenc, Borteiro, Alcalde, Baldo, Cardozo, and Faivovich, 2008, Zootaxa, 1927: 1–66, reported on larval morphology. Koscinski, Yates, Handford, and Lougheed, 2009, J. Biogeograph., 36: 255–265, reported on molecular phylogeography (as Hypsiboas andinus). Quinteros-Muñoz, Aguayo, and Carpio, 2021, Kempffiana, 17:18–21, reported a specimens from Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba. Bolivia, 1300 m elevation. 

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