Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879

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 : 100-101

Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879

TYPE SPECIES: Exerodonta sumichrasti Brocchi, 1879 , by monotypy.

DIAGNOSIS: This genus is diagnosed by 80 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. We are not aware of any morphological synapomorphy supporting this genus.

COMMENTS: Exerodonta is resurrected for the species previously placed in the Hyla sumichrasti group and a fragment of the former H. miotympanum group as defined by Duellman (2001) that corresponds to the traditionally recognized H. pinorum group (Duellman 1970). Although we did not include the type species, E. sumichrasti , in the analysis, but only H. chimalapa and H. xera , we consider that these two species and H. sumichrasti and H. smaragdina are so similar that we are not hesitant to consider them closely related. Although we are not aware of any synapomorphy supporting the monophyly of the former H. pinorum group (Duellman, 1970), and our results suggest it is paraphyletic with respect to the H. sumichrasti group, we are tentatively including the other species associated with it, H. abdivita , H. bivocata , H. catracha , and H. juanitae by Snyder (1972), Porras and Wilson (1987), and Campbell and Duellman (2000), in this resurrected genus.

CONTENTS: Eleven species, four placed in one species group, seven unassigned to group.