Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena and Señaris

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 : 110

Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena and Señaris ,

‘‘1992’’ [1993]

TYPE SPECIES: Hyla rodriguezi Rivero, 1968 , by original designation.

DIAGNOSIS: For the purposes of this paper we consider that the 90 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes autapomorphic of Tepuihyla edelcae are synapomorphies of this genus. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. In the context of our results, the reduction of webbing between toes I and II is a putative morphological synapomorphy of this genus (Ayarzagüena et al., ‘‘1992’’ [1993b]; several instances of homoplasy within Lophiohylini , in Phyllodytes , and in the clade composed of Corythomantis , Argenteohyla , Aparasphenodon , and Nyctimantis ).

COMMENTS: We included a single species of Tepuihyla , and as such we did not test its monophyly. We continue to recognize it following Ayarzagüena and Señaris (‘‘1992’’ [1993b]) until its monophyly is rigorously tested.

CONTENTS: Eight species. Tepuihyla aecii (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, ‘‘1992’’ [1993]); Tepuihyla celsae Mijares­Urrutia, Manzanilla­Pupo, and La Marca, 1999 ; Tepuihyla edelcae (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, ‘‘1992’’ [1993]); Tepuihyla galani (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, ‘‘1992’’ [1993]); Tepuihyla luteolabris (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, ‘‘1992’’ [1993]); Tepuihyla rimarum (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, ‘‘1992’’ [1993]); Tepuihyla rodriguezi (Rivero, 1968) ; Tepuihyla talbergae Duellman and Yoshpa, 1996 .