Isthmohyla rivularis (Taylor, 1952)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Isthmohyla > Species: Isthmohyla rivularis

Hyla rivularis Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 847. Holotype: KU 28197, by original designation. Type locality: "American Cinchona Plantation (Isla Bonita), eastern slope of Volcán Poás, [Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela,] Costa Rica, elevation 5,500 ft." Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 80.

Isthmohyla rivularisFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 103.

English Names

American Cinchona Plantation Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Humid premontane and lower montane slopes of the cordilleras of Tilarán, Central, and Talamanca in Costa Rica and adjacent western Panama, 1210–2040 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

See accounts by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 284–289, and Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1–127. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Hyla rivularis) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 876, transferred former members of the Hyla rivularis group into the Hyla pictipes group. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 323–324. In the Isthmohyla pictipes group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 103. Urbina-Cardona and Loyola, 2008, Tropical Conserv. Sci., 1: 417–445, modeled the distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 255. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 236–244, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Isthmohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Jiménez, Ballestero, Astorga, Rodríguez, and Alvarado, 2019, Herpetol. Rev., 50: 322, provided a record forJuan Castro Blanco National Park, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. 

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