Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris and Gorzula, 1993

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 : 79

Genus Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris and Gorzula, 1993

Type species: Hyla rodriguezi Rivero, 1968 , by original designation.

Remarks: The modern concept of Tepuihyla includes several species ranging from the Upper Amazon ( Tepuihyla shushupe and T. tuberculosa ) to the Guiana Shield ( Ron et al. 2016), some only occurring at the tepui summits, and few others from uplands to lowlands. Several new phylogenetic studies suggest that tepui dwellers evolved quite recently from a common ancestor, and not a long time ago as usually suspected for endemics of high tepuis ( Kok et al. 2012; Salerno et al. 2012). Although Ayarzagüena et al. (1993) defined the genus Tepuihyla as masculine, Myers and Stothers (2006) clarified that Hyla is feminine so, Tepuihyla cannot be assumed as masculine.