Dendropsophus pauiniensis (Heyer, 1977)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus pauiniensis

Hyla pauiniensis Heyer, 1977, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 31: 145. Holotype: MZUSP 49892, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil: Amazonas; Boca do Pauini".

Hyla koechlini Duellman and Trueb, 1989, Herpetologica, 45: 5. Holotype: KU 205692, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Cuzco Amazónico on the Río Madre de Dios, approximately 15 km E of Puerto Maldonado, 200 m 12° 33′ S, 69° 03′ W), Departamento de Madre de Dios, Peru". Synonymy by Melo-Sampaio, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 72 (23022): 1. 

Hyla koecklini — Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 211. Incorrect subsequent spelling, 

Dendropsophus koechlini — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.

Dendropsophus pauiniensisFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93.

English Names

Pauini Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Beni, La Paz, and Santa Cruz departments in Bolivia, the states of Acre and Amazonas, Brazil, and possibly in the adjacent region of Leticia, Colombia; see comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

In the Hyla parviceps group according to the original publication and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 859. In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 29–30, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Hyla koechlini. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 33, noted the Bolivian component of the range. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 211–213, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 93. Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 581-588, provided a specific locality for the vicinity of Leticia, Colombia. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 132–133. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. In the Dendropsophus parviceps group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. Melo-Sampaio, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 72 (23022): 1–11, placed Dendropsophus koechlini into the synonymy of Dendropsophus pauiniensis on the basis of comparative external morphology. 

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