Hypsiboas pulchellus (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841) 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 : 87-88

Hypsiboas pulchellus Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 55 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. Observations by Faivovich and Garcia (unpubl.) suggest that the absence of the slip of the m. depressor mandibulae that originates on the dorsal fascia at the level of the m. dorsalis scapularis (present in all other exemplars so far studied of Hypsiboas , and also of Aplastodiscus , Hyloscirtus , and Bokermannohyla ) is a possible synapomorphy of the group.

COMMENTS: We continue to recognize within this species group a Hypsiboas polytaenius clade that includes Hyla beckeri , H. buriti , H. cipoensis , H. goiana , H. latistriata , H. leptolineata , H. phaeopleura , H. polytaenia , and H. stenocephala . Besides molecular data, a likely morphological synapomorphy that supports this clade is the dorsally striped pattern (homoplastic in Hyla bischoffi where a striped pattern occurs on some individuals).

CONTENTS: Thirty species. Hypsiboas alboniger (Nieden, 1923) , new comb.; Hypsiboas andinus (Müller, 1926) , new comb.; Hypsiboas balzani (Boulenger, 1898) , new comb.; Hypsiboas beckeri (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004) , new comb.; Hypsiboas bischoffi (Boulenger, 1887) , new comb.; Hypsiboas buriti (Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999) , new comb.; Hypsiboas caingua (Carrizo, ‘‘1990’’ [1991]), new comb.; Hypsiboas callipleura (Boulenger, 1902) , new comb.; Hypsiboas cipoensis (B. Lutz, 1968) , new comb.; Hypsiboas cordobae (Barrio, 1965) , new comb.; Hypsiboas cymbalum (Bokermann, 1963) , new comb.; Hypsiboas ericae (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000) , new comb.; Hypsiboas freicanecae (Carnaval and Peixoto, 2004) , new comb.; Hypsiboas goianus (B. Lutz, 1968) , new comb.; Hypsiboas guentheri (Boulenger, 1886) , new comb.; Hypsiboas joaquini (B. Lutz, 1968) , new comb.; Hypsiboas latistriatus (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004) , new comb.; Hypsiboas leptolineatus (P. Braun and C. Braun, 1977) , new comb.; Hypsiboas marginatus (Boulenger, 1887) , new comb.; Hypsiboas marianitae (Carrizo, 1992) , new comb.; Hypsiboas melanopleura (Boulenger, 1912) , new comb.; Hypsiboas palaestes (Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997) , new comb.; Hypsiboas phaeopleura (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000) , new comb.; Hypsiboas polytaenius (Cope, 1870) , new comb.; Hypsiboas prasinus (Burmeister, 1856) , new comb.; Hypsiboas pulchellus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) , new comb.; Hypsiboas riojanus (Koslowsky, 1895) , new comb.; Hypsiboas secedens (B. Lutz, 1963) , new comb.; Hypsiboas semiguttatus (A. Lutz, 1925) , new comb.; Hypsiboas stenocephalus (Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999) , new comb.