Ecnomiohyla, FAIVOVICH & HADDAD & GARCIA & FROST & CAMPBELL & WHEELER, 2005

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

Ecnomiohyla , new genus

TYPE SPECIES: Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, 1886 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus is diagnosed by 37 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein 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.

ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek, ecnomios, meaning marvelous, unusual; an obvious reference to the incredible frogs of the Hyla tuberculosa group. The gender is feminine.

COMMENTS: This new genus contains the Hyla tuberculosa group, excluding H. dendrophasma , and including one species of the H. miotympanum group as well. Erecting a new genus for this clade is the only way of being consistent with the new monophyletic taxonomy that is proposed for hylids. Although naming the former H. tuberculosa group as a genus constitutes a testable claim of monophyly, we expect that it will ultimately be found to be two or three different clades, with one of these being the one named here.

CONTENTS: Ten species. Ecnomiohyla echinata (Duellman, 1962) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra (Taylor, 1948) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla miliaria (Cope, 1886) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla minera (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla miotympanum (Cope, 1863) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla phantasmagoria (Dunn, 1943) ; Ecnomiohyla salvaje (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla thysanota (Duellman, 1966) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) , new comb.; Ecnomiohyla valancifer (Firschein and Smith, 1956) , new comb.