Dryophytes avivoca (Viosca, 1928)

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

Hyla avivoca Viosca, 1928, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 41: 89. Holotype: USNM 75017, by original designation. Type locality: "outskirts of Mandeville, [St. Tammany Parish,] Louisiana", USA.

Hyla phaeocrypta ogechiensis Neill, 1948, Herpetologica, 4: 175. Holotype: W.T. Neill 18007, by original designation; presumably now in UF. Type locality: "Ogeechee River at Midville, Burke County, Georgia", USA. Synonymy by Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 9: 172.

Hyla avivoca avivoca — Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 9: 172.

Hyla avivoca ogechiensis — Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 9: 172.

Hyla (Dryophytes) avivoca — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 334. 

Dryophytes avivocus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 23. Treatment of a noun in apposition as an adjective (DRF). 

Common Names

Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 58; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71).

Bird-voiced Treefrog (Hyla avivoca: 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: 324; 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).

Whistling Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca: ; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: x; Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 10).

Western Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca avivoca: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71); 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: 325); 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; 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).

Eastern Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca ogechiensis: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 71; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 325).

Eastern Bird-voiced Treefrog (Hyla avivoca ogechiensis: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; 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; 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

Southeastern USA (Mississippi River drainage from southern Illinois and extreme southwestern Indiana southward; western Kentucky, western Tennessee, most of Mississippi, southern Alabama, central and eastern Georgia and adjacent South Carolina); isolated records in southeastern Oklahoma, central Arkansas, and northern and central Louisiana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Arkansas, United States of America - Florida, United States of America - Georgia, United States of America - Illinois, United States of America - Indiana, United States of America - Kentucky, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Mississippi, United States of America - Missouri, United States of America - Oklahoma, United States of America - South Carolina, United States of America - Tennessee

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Hyla versicolor group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102; this confirmed by  Li, Wang, Nian, Litvinchuk, Wang, Li, Rao, and Klaus, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 87: 80–90, who also provided evidence for cryptic species. For discussion see Smith, 1966, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 28: 1–2. Turnipseed, 1976, Herpetol. Rev., 7: 178–179, provided the record for central Arkansas. Redmer, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 448–449, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 245–250, provided accounts that summarized the literature of the species. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 68–69, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 194–195, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Guyer and Bailey, 2023, Frogs and Toads of Alabama: 191–194, provided a detailed account for the species in Alabama, USA.  

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