Boana rubracyla (Cochran and Goin, 1970)

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

Hyla rubracyla Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 229. Holotype: USNM 157820, by original designation. Type locality: "along the Río Calima, near Córdoba, [Departamento] Valle, Colombia".

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

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

Common Names

Valle Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Pacific lowlands in the Departments of Chocó and Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and extreme northern Chocoan, Ecuador, below 500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 13. Formerly considered a synonym of Hyla pellucens by Duellman, 1971, Herpetologica, 27: 221. Tentatively placed in the Hypsiboas pellucens group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87.

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