Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus (Werner, 1894)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Sphaenorhynchus > Species: Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus

Hylopsis platycephalus Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 156. Holotype: Not stated; NHMW 33142 (formerly ZIUW 90), according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26. KU 169753 designated neotype by Lynch, 1981, J. Herpetol., 15: 287; this being in error as the type still exists and is not a Centrolenella but a Sphaenorhynchus according to Harding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 413-418 (Neotype being an example of Centrolenella savagei). Type locality: "Süd-Amerika".

Hyla (Sphoenohyla) orophila Lutz and Lutz, 1938, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 10: 178. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 3309, by original designation. Type locality: "Serra do Mar, 4 km. outside Petropolis, in canal leading to the dam at Quitandinha", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Synonymy by Araujo-Vieira, Caramaschi, Grillitsch, Grant, and Faivovich, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 73. 

Hyla aurantiaca orophila — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 184.

Sphoenohyla orophila — Goin, 1957, Caldasia, 8: 22.

Dryomelictes orophila — Goin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 9.

Hyla orophila — Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 50. Apparently based on misidentified specimens from Trinidad.

Sphaenorhynchus orophilus — Rivero, 1969, Copeia, 1969: 702.

Sphaenorhynchus platycephalusHarding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 415.

English Names

South American Lime Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Lutz's Lime Treefrog (Sphaenorhynchus orophilus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Distribution

Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo ,and Minas Gerais States, in southeastern Brazil, above 1,000 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See discussion of the status of this species in Harding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 413-418. The designation of a neotype for this nominal species (Lynch, 1981, J. Herpetol., 15: 283-291) was in error; see Centrolenella savagei (Centrolenidae). See account as Sphaenorhycnhus orophilus by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 286-287. Cruz, Feio, and Caramaschi, 2009, Anf. Ibitipoca: 110-111, provided photographs and a brief account (as Sphaenorhynchus orophilus) for Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Araujo-Vieira, Caramaschi, Grillitsch, Grant, and Faivovich, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 73–84, discussed the identity of this species. Pereira Silva, Ceron, Silva, and Santana, 2022, Ecol. Evol., 12(e8754): 1–15, reported on phylogenetic relationships and biogeography and provided a polygon map of the species. Manzano, Takeno, and Sawaya, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 453–472, reported on the advertisement call.  

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