Smilisca phaeota

New Grenada Cross-banded Treefrog

Cope, 1862

Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae

Description

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Distribution

Lowlands of Central America from Nicaragua to northwestern Colombia; Pacific lowlands of southeastern Costa Rica, eastern Panama, Colombia, and northwestern Ecuador; valleys of the Río Cauca and Río Magdalena, Colombia.

Habitat & Ecology

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Reproduction

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Conservation

Status: Not Listed, but habitat destruction threatens amphibians worldwide.

Other Comments

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References

Villa, J., Wilson, L.D., & J.D. Johnson 1988 Middle American Herpetology. Univ. of Missouri Press, 131 pp.
Frank, N., & E. Ramus 1996 A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. NG Publishing, 337 pp

Other Available References from Amphibian Species of the World

Hyla phaeota Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358. Holotype: USNM 4347. Type locality: "Turbo, [Intendencia de Chocó, Colombia,] New Granada".
Hyla baudini dolomedes Barbour, 1923, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 129: 11. Holotype: MCZ 8539. Type locality: "Rio Esnápe, Sambú Valley, eastern Panama". Synonymy by Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 413.
Hyla carinata Andersson, 1938, Ark. Zool., 30A(23): 22. Syntypes: NHRM 1874 (3 specimens). Type locality: "San José. Tarraco", Bolivia. This locality considered erroneous by De la Riva, 1993, Herpetol. J., 3: 113-114, who discussed why the likely provenance was probably Chocoan Ecuador or Colombia, and placed this name in synonymy.
Smilisca phaeota--Starrett, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 303.
Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 61.1-2.