Hyloscirtus

Hyloscirtus is a genus of Neotropical frogs in the family Hylidae.[1] This genus was resurrected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae,[2] with the distinguishing features being 56 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. Of these species, 28 species, previously placed in the genus Hyla, were moved to this genus. The fingers and toes of these frogs have wide dermal fringes.[2]

Hyloscirtus
Hyloscirtus palmeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Cophomantinae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Peters, 1882
Type species
Hylonomus bogotensis
Peters, 1882
Species

37 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]
  • Hylonomus Peters, 1882 – homonym of Hylonomus Dawson, 1860
  • Colomascirtus Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016

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.[3]

Species

There are currently 37 recognized species in this genus:[1]

AmphibiaWeb also lists Hyloscirtus estevesi,[5] which the Amphibian Species of World,[1] following Barrio-Amorós and colleagues (2019), treats as synonym of Hyloscirtus jahni.[6]

References
  1. Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  2. Faivovich, Julián; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Garcia, Paulo C.A.; Frost, Darrel R.; Campbell, Jonathan A. & Wheeler, Ward 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. 294: 1–240. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2.
  3. Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani and Young, editors (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World, pp. 249–252. ISBN 978-84-96553-41-5
  4. 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.
  5. "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  6. Barrio-Amorós, C. L.; Rojas-Runjaic, F. J. M. & Señaris, J. C. (2019). "Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation" (PDF). Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. 13 (1): 1–198. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-08-01.


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