Phasmahyla guttata (Lutz, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Phasmahyla > Species: Phasmahyla guttata

Phyllomedusa guttata Lutz, 1924, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 90 (1925, vol. 1): 241. Syntypes: AL-MN 297–298, 447–449, and USNM 96224–26, 96317, and 96338, according to Baêta, Haddad, and Pombal, 2025, Salamandra, 61: 37, who designated AL-MN 449 as lectotype. Type locality: "dans les montagnes, près de Rio", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; restricted to the "Tijuca Massif" by Baêta, Haddad, and Pombal, 2025, Salamandra, 61: 31, with an extensive discussion of types and previous invalid lectotype designations. 

Phyllomedusa (Hylomantis) guttataLutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601, 619.

Phasmahyla guttataCruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 722.

Common Names

Spotted Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Coastal mountains in the state of Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Espíritu Santo, and Paraná, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1–40. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 66, provided a brief account and photo. Cruz, Feio, and Nascimento, 2008, Amphibia-Reptilia, 29: 311–318, briefly delimited the range. Oliveira, Coco, Deus, Pagotto, Silva, Rocha, and Vrcibradic, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 446, provided the first record for the state of Espíritu Santo, Brazil, and commented on the range. Internal larval morphology reported on by Dias, Mongin-Aquino, Vera Candioti, Carvalho-e-Silva, and Baêta, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 44–53. Baêta, Haddad, and Pombal, 2025, Salamandra, 61: 29–40, provided an extensive discussion of the types and previous invalid lectotype designations as well as providing a valid designation. 

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