Exerodonta sumichrasti, Brocchi, 1879

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 2005 (294), pp. 1-240 : 101

Exerodonta sumichrasti Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 76 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. Putative morphological synapomorphies of this group are the massive nasals (Duellman, 1970) and, in the species with a known tadpole, the enlarged larval oral disc (homoplastic with the former Hyla mixomaculata group), and the 3/6 to 7 labial tooth row formula (Canseco­ Márquez et al., 2003; Duellman, 1970).

COMMENTS: The illustrations of the oral discs of Hyla smaragdina , H. sumichrasti (Duellman, 1970) , and H. xera (Canseco­ Márquez et al., 2003) show that they share the multiple interruption of the last posterior labial tooth row into shorter rows, possibly another synapomorphy.

CONTENTS: Four species. Exerodonta chimalapa (Mendelson and Campbell, 1994) , new comb.; Exerodonta smaragdina (Taylor, 1940) , new comb.; Exerodonta sumichrasti Brocchi, 1879 ; Exerodonta xera (Mendelson and Campbell, 1994) , new comb.

Species of Exerodonta Unassigned to

Group

Considering that in our analysis Hyla melanomma and H. perkinsi are a grade leading to the E. sumichrasti group, we are not assigning to any group these and the other species associated with the former Hyla pinorum group (Duellman, 1970; Snyder, 1972; Porras and Wilson, 1987; Campbell and Duellman, 2000). These species are: Exerodonta abdivita (Campbell and Duellman, 2000) , new comb.; Exerodonta bivocata (Duellman and Hoyt, 1961) , new comb.; Exerodonta catracha (Porras and Wilson, 1987) , new comb.; Exerodonta juanitae (Snyder, 1972) , new comb.; Exerodonta melanomma (Taylor, 1940) , new comb.; Exerodonta perkinsi (Campbell and Brodie, 1992) , new comb.; Exerodonta pinorum (Taylor, 1937) , new comb.