Hyloscirtus

Hyloscirtus
Hyloscirtus palmeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Peters, 1882
Species

28+ see text.

Hyloscirtus is a genus of relatively large Neotropical frogs in the Hylidae family. This genus was resurrected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae family,[1] with the distinguishing features being 56 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. Of these species, 28 species, previously placed in the Hyla genus, were moved to this genus. The fingers and toes of these frogs have wide dermal fringes.

They are primarily found in foothill and mountain forests in the Andes, ranging from Bolivia to Venezuela, but a few species occur in adjacent lowlands or páramo, and two (H. colymba and H. palmeri) are found in Panama and Costa Rica. They are typically found near streams where they breed. Several species in this genus are seriously threatened by habitat loss, pollution, introduced species (predation by introduced trout), and the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.[2]

Species

Binomial name and author Common name
H. albopunctulatus (Boulenger, 1882)
H. alytolylax (Duellman, 1972)
H. armatus (Boulenger, 1902)
H. bogotensis Peters, 1882
H. callipeza (Duellman, 1989) Sardinata tree frog
H. caucanus (Ardila-Robayo, Ruiz-Carranza & Roa-Trujillo, 1993) Cauca tree frog
H. charazani (Vellard, 1970) Charazani tree frog
H. chlorosteus (Reynolds & Foster, 1992) Parjacti tree frog
H. condor (, 2014)
H. colymba (Dunn, 1931) La Loma tree frog
H. criptico Coloma et al., 2012[3]
H. denticulentus (Duellman, 1972) Charta tree frog
H. estevesi (Rivero, 1968)
H. jahni (Rivero, 1961) Jahn's tree frog
H. larinopygion (Duellman, 1973) Cordillera central tree frog
H. lascinius (Rivero, 1970) Tabor tree frog
H. lindae (Duellman & Altig, 1978) Linda's tree frog
H. lynchi (Ruiz-Carranza & Ardila-Robayo, 1991) Lynch's Colombian tree frog
H. pacha (Duellman & Hillis, 1990) Morona-Santiago tree frog
H. palmeri (Boulenger, 1908) Palmer's tree frog
H. pantostictus (Duellman & Berger, 1982) Rio Chingual Valley tree frog
H. phyllognathus (Melin, 1941) Roque tree frog
H. piceigularis (Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1982) Rio Luisito tree frog
H. platydactylus (Boulenger, 1905) Merida Andes tree frog
H. princecharlesi Coloma et al., 2012[3] Prince Charles stream tree frog
H. psarolaimus (Duellman & Hillis, 1990) Papallacta tree frog
H. ptychodactylus (Duellman & Hillis, 1990) Pilalo tree frog
H. sarampiona (Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1982) Western Andes tree frog
H. simmonsi (Duellman, 1989) Simmons' tree frog
H. staufferorum (Duellman & Coloma, 1993) Jondachi tree frog
H. tapichalaca (Kizirian, Coloma & Paredes-Recalde, 2003)
H. tigrinus Mueses-Cisneros & Anganoy-Criollo, 2008
H. torrenticola (Duellman & Altig, 1978) El Pepino tree frog

References

  1. ↑ Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.C., 2005: Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, with Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Num. 294, pp.1-240.
  2. ↑ Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani and Young, editors (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World, pp. 249–252. ISBN 978-84-96553-41-5
  3. 1 2 Coloma, Luis A; et al. (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of stream treefrogs of the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group (Anura: Hylidae), and description of two new species from Ecuador". Zootaxa. 3364: 1–78.


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