Rheohyla miotympanum (Cope, 1863)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Rheohyla > Species: Rheohyla miotympanum

Hyla miotympanum Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 47. Syntypes: USNM 6311 and one with no number, now lost according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 170. Type locality: "Near Jalapa" and "Mirador", Veracruz, Mexico. Restricted to "Jalapa", Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 348.

Hyla microtis Peters, 1870 "1869", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869: 880. Syntypes: ZMB 6657 (2 specimens), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 172. Type locality: "wareren Gegenden Mexicos (Matamoros u. a. o.)" = warmer parts of Mexico (Matamoros and other areas; regarded as "probably [Izucar de] Matamoros, Puebla", Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 90. Synonymy by Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 651; Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 87; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 400.

Hyla darlingi Smith, Smith, and Werler, 1952, Texas J. Sci., 4: 254. Holotype: UIMNH 21903, by original designation. Type locality: "Xico, Veracruz, . . . on a hillside from under a banana plant leaf", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 372.

Ecnomiohyla miotympanumFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

Rheohyla miotympanum — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 19. 

English Names

Small-eard Hyla (Smith, 1945, Ward’s Nat. Sci. Bull., 1: 3).

Small-eared Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 12).

Distribution

Highlands of Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas (Sierra Madre Oriental) to Guanajuato (Sierra Santa Rosa), Queretaro, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca, adjacent Veracruz, and central Chiapas in eastern and central Mexico, 1000 to 2282 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 372–380, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 913–915. Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-López, Reynoso-Rosales, Estrada-Hernandez, and Rodriguez-Blanco, 2001, Anal. Inst. Biol., Univ. Nac. Aut. Mexico, Ser. Zool., 72: 233–243, provided the record from Guanajuato. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615. Savage and Kubicki, 2010, Zootaxa, 2719: 22, regarded the assignment of this species to Ecnomiohyla as problematic as it lacks the morphological synapmorphies they associate with application of the generic name. Garza-Tobón and Lemos-Espinal: 103, provided the first record for Coahuila at 20 km E of San Antonio de las Alanzas. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 51–52, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 222–226, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Ecnomiohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2015, Check List, 11(1642): 1–11, noted the occurrence of the species in Hidalgo, Mexico, without providing a specific locality. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 370–371, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Terán-Juarez, García-Padilla, Leyto-Delgado, Herrera-Enríquez, Flores-Torres, Herrero-Patiño, Pérez-Hernández, and Niño-Maldonado, 2023, Herpetol. Rev., 54: 247, provided records from the Municipalities of Aldama, Casas, Mainero and Victoria in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico. 

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