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Hylomantis aspera Peters, 1873
Hylomantis aspera Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772. Syntypes: ZMB 7507 and 52690-92 (formerly duplicates of 7507) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 43. Type locality: Bahia, Brazil; by implication; "provàvelmente Caravelas", Bahia, Brazil, according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 68.
Phyllomedusa aspera — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 425.
Phyllomedusa (Hylomantis) aspera — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601, 619.
Hylomantis aspera — Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 11: 19. Cruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 720.
Agalychnis aspera — Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.
Hylomantis asperus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 35. Misformed; if genus is masculine should be asper. However, -mantis is actually of common gender, masculine or feminine, and Peters by original usage rendered this generic name feminine (DRF).
Common Names
Rough Leaf frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).
Distribution
Southern Bahia, Brazil.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Brazil
Endemic: Brazil
Comment
See account by Cruz, 1989 "1988", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 11: 40. In the Hylomantis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. In the Agalychis aspera group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Pimenta, Nunes, and Cruz, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 206-214, provided an extensive account and discussed the known range. Freitas, Abegg, Dias, and Moraes, 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 59–72, provided a record from the Serra da Jibóia, Bahia, Brazil.
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