Boana benitezi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Anura

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Salientia Ordo: Anura

Familia: Hylidae
Genus: Boana
Species: Boana benitezi

Name

Boana benitezi (Rivero, 1961)

• Holotype: MCZ 28564, adult ♂, collected by J.A. Rivero on 20 May 1950.
• Type locality: “Caño Wanadi, Mt. Marahuaca, Territorio Amazonas”, Venezuela.

Combinations

• Hyla benitezi Rivero, 1961: 116 [original combination]
• Hypsiboas benitezi — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell & Wheeler, 2005: 87 [subsequent combination]
• Boana benitezi — Dubois, 2017: 28 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Centrolenella pulidoi Rivero, 1968: 312 [synonymized by Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic & Señaris (2019: 60)]
  • Holotype: MCZ 72499, adult ♀, collected by J.A. Rivero and Juan Pulido on 17 February 1968.
  • Type locality: “Monte Duida, 2.000 pies, Territorio Amazonas, Venezuela”.

References

Primary references

• Rivero, J.A. 1961. Salientia of Venezuela. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 1–207. BHL
• Rivero, J.A. 1968. Los centrolenidos de Venezuela (Amphibia, Salientia). Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 28: 301–334.
• Faivovich, J., Haddad, C.F.B., Garcia, P.C.A., Frost, D.R., Campbell, J.A. & Wheller, 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 294: 1–240. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/462 Reference page. 
• Dubois, A. 2017. The nomenclatural status of Hysaplesia, Hylaplesia, Dendrobates and related nomina (Amphibia, Anura), with general comments on zoological nomenclature and its governance, as well as on taxonomic databases and websites. Bionomina 11: 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.11.1.1 Reference page. 
• Barrio-Amorós, C.L., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M. & Señaris, J.C.. 2019. Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(1) [Special Section]: 1–198 (e180). PDF

Links

• Frost, D.R. 2021. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1. Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001 Boana benitezi . Accessed on 13 Apr 2008.

Vernacular names

• English: Benitez's Treefrog