Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882

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 : 84

Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882

TYPE SPECIES: Hyloscirtus bogotensis Pe­

ters, 1882.

Hylonomus Peters, 1882 . Type species: Hylonomus bogotensis Peters, 1882 , by monotypy. Primary homonym of Hylonomus Dawson, 1860 .

DIAGNOSIS: This genus is diagnosed by 56 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. The only putative morphological synapomorphy that we are aware of for this genus is the wide dermal fringes on fingers and toes.

COMMENTS: This genus contains all species included in the Hyla armata , H. bogotensis , and H. larinopygion species groups. The groups are maintained unchanged within Hyloscirtus until the monophyly of each of them is properly tested with denser taxon sampling.

While the wide dermal fringes in fingers and toes are present in the three species groups, in the H. armatus group they are more obvious in the first manual digit. In the H. bogotensis and H. larinopygion groups the fringes look even wider, apparently due to a combination of proportionally smaller discs and wider fringe, which gives the finger or toe the appearance of being almost as wide as the disc.

CONTENTS: Twenty­eight species placed in three species groups.