Dendropsophus microcephalus (Cope 1886)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 74

Dendropsophus microcephalus (Cope 1886)

Syntypes: USNM 13473 (two specimens, lost) .

Type locality: “ Chiriqui,” Panamá.

Distribution: Regions 3, 6. Widespread from southeastern Mexico to northern South America ( Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Trinidad). In Venezuela, widely distributed in open lowlands.

Remarks: Hyla misera Werner, 1903 from Caracas, Venezuela (holotype IRSNB 4549) (as Dendropsophus miserus ) would be the name for Venezuelan populations if, as Duellman (1970) suggested, the subspecies currently recognized (as D. microcephalus miserus for the Venezuelan and northern Colombian populations) is proved to be a full species. Fouquette (1968), Duellman (1970), and Savage (2002) already recognized the differences among CentralAmerican and SouthAmerican populations. Molecular work is needed to assess its final taxonomic identity. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus species group sensu Faivovich et al. (2005).

Selected references: Lutz (1927); Rivero (1961, 1963c, 1964d); Heatwole et al. (1965); Duellman and Fouquette (1968); Fouquette (1968); Duellman (1970, 1974a, 1997); Staton and Dixon (1977); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Rivero-Blanco and Dixon (1979); Rada (1981); Yústiz (1996); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Savage (2002); Tárano (2010); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b).