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Dendropsophus columbianus (Boettger, 1892)
Hyla columbiana Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 41. Syntypes: SMF 1375.2s (2 specimens); SMF 2365 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 41. Type locality: "Popayán, Ver. Staaten von Columbia", Departamento Cauca, Colombia.
Hyla variabilis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 20. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.13.15–31 (formerly 1895.11.16.65–81 according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 96), NHMW 19438.1–3 (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 20, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 24), MZUT An337 (3 specimens) (according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 77), FMNH 3565, MCZ 2606 (according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 280), UMMZ 46464, 51269, 58908 (8 specimens; according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 17), USNM 71115 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 60); ZMH A00963 according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 199; ZSM 1182/0/1–3 according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 170; ZFMK 28635, according to Böhme, 2014, Mertensiella, 21: 101, and RMNH 4496, according to Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 45. Type locality: "Cali", Colombia. Synonymy by Duellman and Trueb, 1983, in Rhodin and Miyata (eds.), Adv. Herpetol. Evol. Biol.: 33–51.
Dendropsophus columbianus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 90.
Common Names
Boettger's Colombian Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).
Distribution
Western slope of the Cordillera Central and easter slope of the Cordillera Occidental (Departments of Nariño, Cauca, Quindío, Risaralda, and Valle del Cauca), Colombia, 950–2300 m elevation.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Colombia
Endemic: Colombia
Comment
In the Dendropsophus columbianus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 90. See account, photograph, and dot map by Agudelo-Valderrama, Bolívar-García, and Hernández-Medina, 2014, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 2(1): 40–46. Ramírez-Chaves, Pisso-Florez, Liévano-Bonilla, Ayerbe-Quiñones, Anganoy-Criollo, and Noguera-Urbano, 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 49–58, discussed the range of the species in Colombia with new records and provided a dot map as well as a predicted distribution map. In the Dendropsophus columbianus group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105, whose samples of Dendropsophus columbianus were paraphyletic with respect to Dendropsophus bogerti, something the authors suggested required additional investigation. In the Dendropsophus columbianus group of Whitcher, Orrico, Ron, Lyra, Cassini, Ferreira, Nakamura, Peloso, Rada, Rivera-Correa, Sturaro, Valdujo, Haddad, Grant, Faivovich, Lemmon, and Lemmon, 2025, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 204 (108275): 1–18.
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