Tepuihyla

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Subfamilia: Lophyohylinae
Genus: Tepuihyla
Species (9): T. aecii – T. edelcae – T. exophthalma – T. luteolabris – T. obscura – T. rodriguezi – T. shushupe – T. tuberculosa – T. warreni

Name

Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris & Gorzula, 1993: 213

Type species: Hyla rodriguezi Rivero, 1968, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Ayarzagüena, J., Señaris, J.C. & Gorzula, S.J. [1992] 1993. Un nuevo genero para las especies del "grupo Osteocephalus rodriguezi" (Anura: Hylidae). Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 52: 213–221.

Additional references

Faivovich, J., Moravec, J., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & Köhler, J. 2006. A new species of the Hypsiboas benitezi group from the western Amazon Basin (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Herpetologica 62(1): 96–108. DOI: 10.1655/05-12.1 Reference page.
Jungfer, K.-H., Faivovich, J., Padial, J.M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Lyra, M.L., Berneck, B.V.M., Iglesias, P.P., Kok, P.J.R., MacCulloch, R.D., Rodrigues, M.T., Verdade, V.K., Torres-Gastello, C.P., Chaparro, J.C., Valdujo, P.H., Reichle, S., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Ernst, R., De la Riva, I., Means, D.B., Lima, A.P., Señaris, J.C., Wheeler, W.C., & Haddad, C.F.B. 2013. Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle. Zoologica Scripta 42(4): 351–380. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12015 Reference page.
Kok, P.J.R., MacCulloch, R.D., Means, D.B., Roelants, K., Van Bocxlaer, I. & Bossuyt, F. 2012. Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates. Current Biology 22(15): R589–R590. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.034 Reference page.
Salerno, P.E., Ron, S.R., Señaris, J.C., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Noonan, B.P. & Cannatella, D.C. 2012. Ancient tepui summits harbor young rather than old lineages of endemic frogs. Evolution 66(10): 3000–3013. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01666.x Reference page.
Kok, P.J.R., Ratz, S., Tegelaar, M., Aubret, F. & Means, D.B. 2015. Out of taxonomic limbo: a name for the species of Tepuihyla (Anura: Hylidae) from the Chimantá Massif, Pantepui region, northern South America. Salamandra 51(4): 283–314. PDF Reference page.
Salerno, P.E., Señaris, J.C., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M. & Cannatella, D. 2015. Recent evolutionary history of Lost World endemics: population genetics, species delimitation, and phylogeography in a highly complex sky-island landscape. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82(Part A): 314–323. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.020 Reference page.
Ron, S.R., Venegas, P.J., Ortega-Andrade, H.M., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G. & Salerno, P.E. 2016. Systematics of Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa with the description of a new species and comments on the taxonomy of Trachycephalus typhonius (Anura, Hylidae). ZooKeys 630: 115–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.9298 Reference page.
Blotto, B.L., Lyra, M.L., Cardoso, M.C.S., Rodrigues, M.T., Dias, I.R., Marciano Jr., E., Dal Vechio, F., Orrico, V.G.D., Brandão, R.A., Assis, C.L., Lantyer-Silva, A.S.F., Rutherford, M.G., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Solé, M., Baldo, D., Nunes, I., Cajade, R., Torres, A., Grant, T., Jungfer, K.-H., Silva, H.R., Haddad, C.F.B. & Faivovich, J. 2021. The phylogeny of the Casque-headed Treefrogs (Hylidae: Hylinae: Lophyohylini). Cladistics 37(1): 36–72. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12409 Reference page.

Links

Frost, D.R. 2021. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Lophyohylinae/Tepuihyla Tepuihyla]. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (2 May 2022). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

English: Tepui Treefrogs

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