Hyla aurata Wied, 1821

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 : 74

Hyla aurata Wied, 1821

Plate 51

1821 Reise 2: 249.

1824 Isis : 671 (diagnosis).

1824 Abbildungen: Lief. 7 ( fig. 3 of composite pl.). 1825 Beitra¨ge: 531.

PRESENT STATUS: Scinax auratus (Wied, 1821) .

REMARKS: This species was named in the Reise, subsequently diagnosed in the Isis , illustrated in the Abbildungen, and treated in most detail in the Beitra¨ge. The type locality (‘‘S. Agne´s,’’ Bahia) 5 Fazenda Santa Inês (Bokermann, 1957: 238; 1966a: 45, 118). For reference to Wied’s field sketch of Hyla aurata , see discussion above under Hyla crepitans , which shares the same type locality.

Hyla aurata is not listed in Wied’s 1860 manuscript species catalog, and there are no specimens in the collection. Rediscovery of the species was reported by Bokermann (1969) and by Lutz (1973: 167). Duellman and Wiens (1992) designated a neotype.

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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.