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Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)
Phyllomedusa medinae Funkhouser, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 588. Holotype: EBRG 37, by original designation. Type locality: "the biological station 'Henry Pittier' . . . . Estacion Biologica de Rancho Grande (Edo. Aragua, Venezuela)".
Phyllomedusa medinai — Rivero, 1967, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27: 9; Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1–40. Unjustified emendation.
Hylomantis medinai — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115.
Agalychnis medinae — Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.
English Names
Rancho Grande Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).
Distribution
In the cloud forests of the west-central part of the Cordillera de la Costa at Bejuma in Carabobo, Rancho Grande in Aragua, and in Cerro Zapatero and Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela.
Comment
See account by Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1-40. In the Hylomantis buckelyi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. Unassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed why the name medinae is not emendable. Barrio-Amorós, 2009, Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat., 171: 19-46, commented on the biology and range within Venezuela, as Hylomantis medinai. Hertz and Lotzkat, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 121–124, reported on vocalization. Rojas-Runjaic, Camargo-Siliet, Bolaños, Mora, Aular, and García, 2014, Check List, 10: 392–394, discussed the range and provided a range extension to the Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 105, for comments on range, extinction at the type locality, and literature.
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