Hypsiboas faber (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) FAIVOVICH & HADDAD & GARCIA & FROST & CAMPBELL & WHEELER, 2005

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 : 87

Hypsiboas faber Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 28 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. We are not aware of any morphological synapomorphy for this group.

COMMENTS: We are including in this group a clade of some species resulting from the fragmentation of the Hyla boans group. Our results indicate that H. crepitans , H. faber , H. lundii , and H. pardalis form, together with H. albomarginata (a component of the Hyla albomarginata group), a monophyletic group only distantly related to H. boans , the species that gives the name to the former group. For this reason, we recognize this clade as the Hypsiboas faber species group. We tentatively include Hyla exastis in this group because Caramaschi and Rodrigues (2003) related it to H. lundii and H. pardalis on the basis of the lichenous color pattern and the rugose dorsal skin texture.

A likely behavioral synapomorphy of most species of this group, with the exception of Hyla albomarginata , is the construction of nests by males (with two instances of homoplasy within Hylinae , some species of the now called Hypsiboas semilineatus group (see p. 88), and the Bokermannohyla circumdata group.) The inclusion of Hyla pugnax and H. rosenbergi is tentative, based on the fact that males construct nests, but they lack the reticulated palpebral membrane, a likely synapomorphy present in most species of the now called Hypsiboas semilineatus group (see below). Future research will test this bold hypothesis.

CONTENTS: Eight species. Hypsiboas albomarginatus (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Hyp­ siboas crepitans (Wied­Neuwied, 1824) , new comb.; Hypsiboas exastis (Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2003) , new comb.; Hypsiboas faber (Wied­Neuwied, 1821) , new comb.; Hypsiboas lundii (Burmeister, 1856) , new comb.; Hypsiboas pardalis (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Hypsiboas pugnax (O. Schmidt, 1857) , new comb.; Hypsiboas rosenbergi (Boulenger, 1898) , new comb.