Hyla punctata Wied, 1824

Vanzolini, Paulo E. & Myers, Charles W., 2015, The Herpetological Collection Of Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782 - 1867), With Special Reference To Brazilian Materials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (395), pp. 1-155 : 70-71

Hyla punctata Wied, 1824

Plate 49

1824 Abbildungen: Lief. 7 ( fig. 3 of composite pl.). 1825 Beitra¨ge: 605 (appendix).

PRESENT STATUS: Hyla punctata Wied, 1824 , non Schneider, 1799 5 Hyla infulata Wied.

REMARKS: Hyla punctata Wied, 1824 , is a junior homonym of Calamita punctata Schneider (1799: 170–172) , which had been transferred to Hyla within a few years of its naming (Daudin, 1802: 41–42). Its replacement name is Hyla infulata Wied (see below).

The painting (see pl. 49) shows a small green frog sparsely dotted with black on the body, with a dark canthal stripe, and with a brown interocular bar, from which a paler brown marking extends medially forward to the snout. Wied noted that it was ‘‘in der Gegend der Fazenda von Vareda unweit der Gra¨ nzen von Minas Gerae¨s gefunden.’’

The accompanying text gives no reference to an authority (hence, following Wied’s usual style, it is to be taken as a new species) and no page citations to Wied’s own works. Few workers have noticed that, except for

35 The Bosch editors misidentified the H. aurata illustration as ‘‘ Hyla punctata ’’ in the explanatory text. The H. aurata was later repainted to go on an Abbildungen plate containing two other small hylids (see pl. 51), whereas H. punctata was inserted between dorsal and ventral views of H. faber (see pl. 49). The field sketch in Bosch (1991: 271, 323) shows only the dorsal view of H. faber , the markings of which were accurately copied by Hermann Beckers for the published plate, although the ground color now differs somewhat. Beckers’ layout for the entire plate also is shown in Bosch (1991: 323).

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some rephrasing, the text description of Hyla punctata in the Abbildungen is virtually identical to the later Beitra¨ge description for Hyla infulata . The same length (‘‘11a Linien’’) was given for each, the same collecting situation (on leaves of Ricinus 36), and the same vernacular name—’’Punctirter Laubkleber’’ (‘‘dotted leafsticker’’), with the qualifier ‘‘mit der Stirnbinde’’ (‘‘with the headband’’) added in the Beitra¨ge account.

The name Hyla punctata of Wied makes its first appearance in the Abbildungen and only once more in the Beitra¨ge, where Wied stated

36 Ricinus , the treelike castor bean or castor oil plant, thought to have originated in Africa and evidently a very early introduction to the New World.

in the appendix that he had named the frog Hyla infulata , because ‘‘der Name punctata kann nich bestehen’’ (‘‘the name punctata can not stand’’), since he had discovered a previous use. 37 According to Bokermann (1966a: 52–53), Wied issued a substitute page of Abbildungen text with the replacement name Hyla infulata . The corrected page is lacking in the AMNH copy of the Abbildungen. Rarity of the corrigendum and inattention to the Beitra¨ge appendix explains why only a few authors such as Boulenger (1882: 356) and Bokermann (1966a: 59) have recognized

37 Wied said that Shaw had already used the name. We have not seen that reference, but it is immaterial inasmuch as Hyla punctata (Schneider) already had priority over Wied’s name. that Wied’s punctata was intended as a new species description and that Hyla infulata is the replacement name. (Frost [2002] recognized both the validity of the description and the homonymity with Schneider’s name, and placed Hyla punctata Wied as incertae sedis under the Hylinae.) Further remarks are given under Hyla infulata below.

Figures

Fig. 3. Title page from the third volume of Prince Maximilian’s Abbildungen zur Naturgeschichte Brasiliens (Wied, 1822–1831). Illustrated taxa are listed on the volume (Liefererung) title pages, but the contained plates are unnumbered (there are 6 plates in each of 12 Liefererungen). The herpetological plates reproduced herein are arbitrarily numbered 1–56 following the organization of the present work, which reflects the order of species presentation in volume 1 of the Beitra¨ge (fig. 4). Geographic modifiers (Neuwied and Runkel) were dropped from the Wied family name in 1824. After that, ‘‘Wied-Neuwied’’ appeared only on the title pages of the Abbildungen, which had begun publication two years earlier.