Published July 14, 2019 | Version v1
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Boana punctata

  • 1. Fundación AndígenA, Apartado Postal 210, Mérida, VENEZUELA & Current address: Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita de Osa, COSTA RICA
  • 2. Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Apartado Postal 1930, Caracas 1010 - A, VENEZUELA & Current address: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Río Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Av. Ipiranga 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619 - 900, BRAZIL
  • 3. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, apartado 20632, Caracas 1020, VENEZUELA

Description

Boana punctata (Schneider 1799)

Syntypes: NHM 155 (two individuals)

Type locality: “ Surinam.”

Distribution: Regions 3, 5. Widespread in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Trinidad). Present in the open lowlands of Venezuela, except in Maracaibo Lake Basin.

Remarks: In Boana punctata species group (Faivovich et al. 2005).

Selected references: Duellman (1974a); Hoogmoed (1979a); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Barrio et al. (2000); Señaris et al. (2014).

Notes

Published as part of Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, pp. 1-198 in Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) (e 180) 13 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11404264

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schneider
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Anura
Family
Hylidae
Genus
Boana
Species
punctata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Boana punctata (Schneider, 1799) sec. Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris, 2019

References

  • Schneider JG. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum Naturalis et Literarie. Jena, Germany. 264 pp.
  • Faivovich J, Haddad CFB, Garcia PCA, Frost DR, Campbell JA, Wheeler WC. 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 294: 1 - 240.
  • Duellman WE. 1974 a. A reassessment of the taxonomic status of some Neotropical Hylid frogs. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 27: 1 - 27.
  • Hoogmoed MS. 1979 a. Resurrection of Hyla ornatissima Noble (Amphibia, Hylidae) and remarks on related species of Green tree frogs from the Guiana Area. Notes on the Herpetofauna of Surinam VI. Zoologische Verhandelingen 172: 1 - 46.
  • Gorzula S, Senaris JC. 1998. Contribution to the herpetofauna of the Venezuelan Guayana. I. A data base. Scientia Guaianae 8: 1 - 267.
  • Senaris JC, Lampo M, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Barrio-Amoros CL. 2014. Guia Ilustrada de los Anfibios del Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela. 264 p.