Boana xerophylla ( Duméril & Bibron, 1841 )

Ovalle-Pacheco, Andrés, Camacho-Rozo, Claudia & Arroyo, Sandy, 2019, Amphibians from Serrania de Las Quinchas, in the mid-Magdalena river valley, Colombia, Check List 15 (3), pp. 387-404 : 396

Boana xerophylla ( Duméril & Bibron, 1841)

Hyla xerophylla Duméril and Bibron 1841: 122 .

Hypsiboas xerophylla — Orrico 2017: 148.

Boana xerophylla — Dubois 2017: 28

Males SVL = 46.4–57.3 mm, females SVL = 54.1–65.1 mm ( Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2001). It is a tree frog of large and moderate size; dorsum light brown with granular skin on the throat, ventral surface has an orang- ish tint, the throat and chest white with some brown fleck- ing; small tubercles present on dorsum and head. A total of 14 individuals were recorded, and were observed in the stations 1, 2 and 3, in water bodies like fish breeding ponds, in agricultural areas and grasslands with humid forest relicts between 300 and 900 m. This species can be confused with B. boans and B. pugnax due to the similarity in body size and coloration. It can be differentiated from these 2 species by its horizontal pupil and its iris that is pale gray at the center and greenish yellow at the edges, in contrast to a rhomboid pupil with an iris that is black at the center and orange at the edges in B. boans , and a horizontal pupil with an iris that is black at the cen- ter in B. pugnax ( Restrepo et al. 2017) . The species is distributed from east Panamá to the Guianas, at elevations between 0 and 2400 m, and in Colombia, it is reported in the Caribbean, the Cauca and Magdalena river valley, and in the upper Amazon basin ( Orrico et al. 2017).