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Dendropsophus limai (Bokermann, 1962)
Hyla limai Bokermann, 1962, Neotropica, 8: 81. Holotype: WCAB 4, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "São Vicente, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil".
Dendropsophus limai — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.
Common Names
Sao Vicente Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
Comment
Related to Hyla minuta and Hyla werneri (= Hyla microcephala) according to the original publication. In the Dendropsophus minutus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. In the Dendropsophus minutus 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. Not address in the study 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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