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Hypsiboas albopunctatus

Hypsiboas albopunctatus (*)

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Anura
Subordo: Neobatrachia
Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Hylinae
Tribus: Cophomantini
Genus: Hypsiboas
Species: Hypsiboas albopunctatus

Name

Hypsiboas albopunctatus (Spix, 1824)

Type locality: "São Paulo" or "Minas Gerais", Brazil

Holotype: KU 100000.

Synonyms

* Calamita fasciatus Schneider, 1799
* Hyla boans Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801
* Hyla albopunctata Spix, 1824
* Auletris boans — Wagler, 1830
* Hypsiboas boans — Tschudi, 1838
* Hyla (Hyla) boans — Burmeister, 1856
* Hyla oxyrhina Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862
* Hyla spectrum Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862
* Hyla (Hypsiboas) oxyrhina — Cope, 1863
* Hypsiboas spectrum — Cope, 1867
* Hypsiboas albipunctatus — Cope, 1867
* Hyla albopunctata albopunctata — Rivero, 1961
* Hypsiboas albopunctatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
* Boana albopunctata — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005

References

* Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 33.
* Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87
* Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October, 2007). Electronic Database accessible at [1] American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Hypsiboas albopunctatus . Accessed on 13 Apr 2008.
* 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN link: Hypsiboas albopunctatus (Least Concern) Downloaded on 13 April 2008.

Vernacular names
Internationalization
English: Spotted Treefrog

Hypsiboas albopunctatus is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, intermittent rivers, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, and urban areas.

References

* Aquino, L., Bastos, R., Kwet, A., Reichle, S., Silvano, D., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Scott, N. & Baldo, D. 2004. Hypsiboas albopunctatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 July 2007.

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