Hypsiboas albopunctatus (Spix, 1824) 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 : 86

Hypsiboas albopunctatus Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 43 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.

COMMENTS: To avoid paraphyly, we include Hyla fasciata and H. calcarata in the group, and to avoid the creation of a species group for a single species, we also include the sister taxon of the former H. albopunctata group, H. heilprini . Larvae so far known of the group ( H. albopunctata , H. calcarata , H. fasciata , H. multifasciata , H. raniceps ), with the exception of H. heilprini and H. lanciformis are reported to have the mediodistal portion of the internal wall of the spiracle separated from the body wall (de Sa´, 1995; 1996; Faivovich, 2002, personal obs.; Peixoto and Cruz, 1983; Wild, 1992). Peixoto and Cruz (1983) reported the same character state for larvae of H. albomarginata . Additional studies on the taxonomic distribution of this peculiar character state are needed to know the limits of the clade or clades it diagnoses. Wild (1992) noticed that larvae of H. calcarata , H. fasciata , and H. lanciformis share the presence of pigmented caudal vertical bands that interconnect laterally along the musculature, with this pattern occurring as well in H. raniceps (Faivovich, personal obs.).

Hyla dentei was originally associated with both H. raniceps and the former H. geographica group. We are tentatively including it in the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group in view of its overall similarities with Hyla calcarata and H. fasciata .

CONTENTS: Nine species. Hypsiboas albopunctatus (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Hypsiboas calcaratus (Troschel, 1848) , new comb.; Hypsiboas dentei (Bokermann, 1967) , new comb.; Hypsiboas fasciatus (Günther, 1858) , new comb.; Hypsiboas heilprini (Noble, 1923) , new comb.; Hypsiboas lanciformis Cope, 1871 ; Hypsiboas leucocheilus (Caramaschi and Niemeyer, 2003) , new comb.; Hypsiboas multifasciatus (Günther, 1859) , new comb.; Hypsiboas raniceps Cope, 1862 .