Dryophytes andersonii (Baird, 1854)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dryophytes > Species: Dryophytes andersonii

Hyla andersonii Baird, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7: 60. Holotype: not stated; USNM 3600 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 51. Type locality: "Anderson, [Anderson County,] South Carolina", USA; in error according to Neill, 1947, Herpetologica, 4: 75–76, who (Neill, 1957, Copeia, 1957: 141) did not think it occurred at the type locality; designated as "Aiken County, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69, although this restriction is invalid inasmuch as it is not based on disclosed evidence. See Gosner and Black, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 54: 1, who regarded the type locality as unknown. Brown, 1980, Brimleyana, 3: 113-117, discussed the type locality. Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 332, give the year of publication incorrectly as 1856; see Fox, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia,, Index, 1812-1912: vii–xiv. 

Hyla (Dryophytes) andersonii — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 332. 

Dryophytes andersonii — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 23. 

English Names

Anderson's Hyla (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24; Dickerson, 1906, The Frog Book: 131).

Anderson's Tree Toad (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 189).

Anderson Tree Toad (Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 108).

Anderson's Tree Frog (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 158; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x).

Anderson Tree Frog (Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 33).

Pine Barrens Tree Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 69).

Pine Barrens Treefrog (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 320; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 11; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 10; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37:6; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 15; Frost, Lemmon, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 11).

Distribution

Isolated populations on the coastal plain: central New Jersey; central South Carolina to central and southeastern North Carolina; Pensacola region of western Florida and adjacent Alabama, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Gosner and Black, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 54. See also Karlin, Means, Guttman, and Lambright, 1982, Copeia, 1982: 175–178. In the Hyla eximia group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102, but in the Hyla versicolor group of Hua, Fu, Li, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 246–259, and Li, Wang, Nian, Litvinchuk, Wang, Li, Rao, and Klaus, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 87: 80–90. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615. Means, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 445–447, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 235–239, provided accounts that summarized the literature. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 52–55, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 192–193, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Warwick, Travis, and Lemmon, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 3281–3298, reported on molecular and acoustic geographic variation. Oswald, Roberts, Moler, Arndt, Camper, and Quattro, 2020, J. Herpetol., 54: 206–215, reported on conservation genetics and molecular biogeography. Warwick, Barrow, Smith, Means, Lemmon, and Lemmon, 2021, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 133: 120–134, reported (as Hyla andersonii) on molecular phylogeography and its history of range fragmentation. 

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