Hylodes asper (Müller, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylodidae > Genus: Hylodes > Species: Hylodes asper

Elosia aspera Müller, 1924, Senckenb. Biol., 6: 173. Holotype: ZSM 3/1924, now lost, according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 172. Type locality: "Barreira (am Südosthange der Serra dos Orgaes in 500 m Meershöhe), Staat Rio de Janeiro", Brazil.

Hylodes asperaMyers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 195–202.

Hylodes asperCannatella, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 238.

Common Names

Warty Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).

Distribution

High-gradient streams in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Hylodes nasus group of Heyer, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 377–385. The grammatically incorrect name Hylodes asperus has had some use. Haddad and Giaretta, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 324–333, reported on the advertisement call. See accounts by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 282–284, and Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 303–304. Lingnau, Canedo, and Pombal, 2008, Copeia, 2008: 600–601, discussed misidentifications in the literature and provided a corrected range map. Rodriguez, Börner, Pabijan, Gehara, Haddad, and Vences, 2015, Evol. Ecol., 29: 765–785 (and supplemental data), reported on phylogeographic diversity and its causes. 

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