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Dendropsophus ruschii (Weygoldt and Peixoto, 1987)
Hyla ruschii Weygoldt and Peixoto, 1987, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 22: 238. Holotype: EI 7741, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil, State of Espirito Santo. Domingo Martins".
Dendropsophus ruschii — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.
Common Names
Rusch's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).
Distribution
Atlantic coastal forest at elevation of about 800 m in Espírito Santo and adjacent Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
Comment
Tentatively placed in the Hyla parviceps group according to the original publication. In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. Peloso and Gasparini, 2006, Check List, 2(2): 38-40, reported new records and discussed the range. Cassini, Neves, Dayrell, Cruz, and Feio, 2007, Check List, 3: 190-192, provided a new record and provided a range map. Santos, Silva, Fehlberg, Santos, Zaidan, and Garcia, 2012, Check List, 8: 313-316, reported this species from the eastern region of the Serra da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and commented on the range. In the Dendropsophus ruschii 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. Souza, Melo, Peixoto, Travenzoli, Feio, and Dergam, 2024, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 163: 317–326, reported the karyotype and mapped CA and CAT microsatellite sites as part of a discussion of evolution of repetitive DNA organization within Hylidae. In the Dendropsophus decipiens 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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