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Hyla
The genus Hyla is one of approximately 38 genera in the family of tree frogs (Hylidae). They have a very broad distribution; species can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and across the Americas. There were more than 300 described species in this genus, but after a major revision of the Hylidae family most of these have been moved to new genera so the genus now only contains 33 species".[1]
The genus was established by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768. It was named after Hylas in Greek mythology, the companion of Hercules. The name is unusual in that though Laurenti knew that Hylas was male, the name is unambiguously treated in the feminine grammatical gender for reasons unknown. The etymology of the name is also oftentimes incorrectly given as being derived from the Greek word ὕλη (hūlē, "forest" or "wood").[2]
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Species
| Binomial name | Common name |
|---|---|
| Hyla andersonii Baird, 1854 | Pine Barrens Tree Frog |
| Hyla annectans (Jerdon, 1870) | Jerdon's Tree Frog |
| Hyla arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) | European Tree Frog |
| Hyla arboricola Taylor, 1941 | |
| Hyla arenicolor Cope, 1866 | Canyon Tree Frog |
| Hyla avivoca Viosca, 1928 | Bird-voiced Tree Frog |
| Hyla bocourti Mocquard, 1899 | Bocourt's Tree Frog |
| Hyla chinensis Günther, 1858 | Common Chinese Tree Frog |
| Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, 1880 | Cope's Gray Tree Frog |
| Hyla cinerea (Schneider, 1799) | American Green Tree Frog |
| Hyla ebraccata (Cope, 1874) | Hourglass Tree Frog |
| Hyla euphorbiacea Günther, 1858 | Southern Highland Tree Frog |
| Hyla eximia Baird, 1854 | Mountain Tree Frog |
| Hyla femoralis Bosc in Daudin, 1800 | Pine Woods Tree Frog |
| Hyla gratiosa LeConte, 1856 | Barking Tree Frog |
| Hyla hallowellii Thompson, 1912 | Hallowell's Tree Frog |
| Hyla heinzsteinitzi Grach, Plesser, and Werner, 2007 | Mamilla Pool Tree Frog |
| Hyla immaculata Boettger, 1888 | Spotless Tree Toad |
| Hyla intermedia Boulenger, 1882 | Italian Tree Frog |
| Hyla japonica Günther, 1859 | Japanese Tree Frog |
| Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874 | Mediterranean Tree Frog |
| Hyla plicata Brocchi, 1877 | Ridged Tree Frog |
| Hyla sanchiangensis Pope, 1929 | San Chiang Tree Frog |
| Hyla sarda (De Betta, 1853) | Sardinian Tree Frog |
| Hyla savignyi Audouin, 1827 | Middle East Tree Frog |
| Hyla simplex Boettger, 1901 | Annam Tree Frog |
| Hyla squirella Bosc in Daudin, 1800 | Squirrel Tree Frog |
| Hyla stepheni Boulenger, 1888 | Northeast China Tree Toad |
| Hyla suweonensis Kuramoto, 1980 | Suweon Tree Frog |
| Hyla tsinlingensis Liu and Hu in Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1966 | Shensi Tree Frog |
| Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825 | Gray Tree Frog |
| Hyla walkeri Stuart, 1954 | Walker's Tree Frog |
| Hyla wrightorum Taylor, 1939 | Wright’s Mountain Tree Frog |
| Hyla zhaopingensis Tang and Zhang, 1984 |
"Hyla" group
Faivovich et al. could not assign these species to a current genus, so they allocated these species to the non-taxon "Hyla". Further work is needed to organize them.
| Binomial name | Common name |
|---|---|
| Hyla alboguttata Boulenger, 1882 | Whitebelly Treefrog |
| Hyla antoniiochoai De la Riva and Chaparro, 2005 | |
| Hyla helenae Ruthven, 1919 | Helena's Treefrog |
| Hyla imitator (Barbour and Dunn, 1921) | Mimic Treefrog |
| Hyla inframaculata Boulenger, 1882 | Santarem Treefrog |
| Hyla warreni Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992 | Warren's Treefrog |
References
- ^ Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.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, Num. 294, pp.1-240. (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/462/1/B294.pdf)
- ^ Charles W. Myers & Richard B. Stothers (2006). "The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the "father of herpetology"". Archives of Natural History 33: 241–266. doi:10.3366/anh.2006.33.2.241.
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