Osteocephalus helenae (Ruthven, 1919)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus helenae

Hyla helenae Ruthven, 1919, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 69: 10. Holotype: UMMZ 52681, by original designation, and according to Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 16. Type locality: "Valley of the Demerara River, . . . . Dunoon, British Guiana [Guyana]".

Osteocephalus germani Ron, Venegas, Toral, Read, Ortiz, and Manzano, 2012, ZooKeys, 229: 30. Holotype: CORBIDI 05462, by original designation. Type locality: "Peru, Región Cusco, Provincia La Convención, near Pongo de Mainique in the vicinity of Santuario Natural Megantoni (12.2581° S, 72.8425° W), 670 m above sea level". Synonymy by  Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 364. 

Osteocephalus helenaeJungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 363. 

English Names

Helena's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55).

Helena's Slender-legged Treefrog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 174).

Distribution

Widely distributed in lowlands of Amazon Region (Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Brazil (Amazonas and Amapá), Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Venezuela, (Bolívar and Delta Amacuro States).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela

Comment

Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 111, could not assign this species to any of the currently recognized taxa, but pending examination of the type left this species incertae sedis. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 402, for brief account and records for Guyana. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351-380. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 77, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 174–175. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 114, discussed the evidence for the presence of this species in Amapá, Brazi, and reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 444, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.

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