Dendropsophus grandisonae (Goin, 1966)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus grandisonae

Hyla grandisonae Goin, 1966, Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 29: 39. Holotype: BMNH 1938.10.3.25, by original designation. Type locality: "in the forest at Mazaruni, British Guiana [= Guyana]".

Dendropsophus grandisonaeFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the lowlands of Guyana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guyana

Endemic: Guyana

Comment

In the Hyla parviceps group according to Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 859, who stated the distribution to be "lowlands of the Guianan Region in northeastern South America". In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125:400, for brief account and records for Guyana. In the Dendropsophus parviceps 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.

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