Dryophytes squirellus

Dryophytes squirellus

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: Hylinae
Genus: Dryophytes
Species: Dryophytes squirellus

Name

Dryophytes squirellus (Bosc, 1800)

• Holotype: Not designated. [Icnotype: plate 5, fig. 2]
• Type locality: “la Caroline”, restricted to “Charleston [Charleston County], South Carolina” by Harper (1940).

Combinations

• Hyla squirella Bosc in Daudin, 1800: 9 [original combination]
• Calamita squirella — Merrem, 1820: 171 [subsequent combination]
• Auletris squirella — Wagler, 1830: 201 [subsequent combination]
• Dendrohyas squirella — Tschudi, 1838: 75 [subsequent combination]
• Hyla (Epedaphus) squirella — Fouquette & Dubois, 2014: 344 [subsequent combination]
• Dryophytes squirellus — Duellman, Marion & Hedges, 2016: 23 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Hyla delitescens LeConte, 1825: 281
  • Syntypes: Not designated; ANSP 1948–58, according to Malnate (1971: 350).
  • Type locality: “Georgia”, United States.

• Hyla flavigula Glass, 1946: 101
  • Holotype: TCWC 1192, adult ♂, collected by Bryan P. Glass on 20 June 1946.
  • Type locality: “Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Aransas County, Texas”, United States.

• Hyla goini Auffenberg, 1956: 8 [Miocene fossil]
  • Holotype: MCZ 2227, fragment of right ilium.
  • Type locality: “Hawthorne Formation, Lower Miocene, Arikareean; Boulder Bar, Thomas Farm, Gilchrist County, Florida”, United States.

References

Primary references

• Daudin, F.-M. 1800. Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipaires. Livraison 1 and 2. Marchant et Cie: Paris. BHL Reference page. 
• LeConte, J.E. 1825. Remarks on the American species of the genera Hyla and Rana. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York 1: 278–282.
• Harper, F. 1940. Some works of Bartram, Daudin, Latreille, and Sonnini, and their bearing upon North American herpetological nomenclature. American Midland Naturalist 23(3): 692–723. DOI: 10.2307/2420453 Reference page. 
• Glass, B.P. 1946. A new Hyla from South Texas. Herpetologica 3: 101–103.
• Duellman, W.E., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4104(1): 1–109. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2021. IUCN: Dryophytes squirellus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T55662A118978652. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T55662A118978652.en. Accessed on 25 November 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Squirrel Treefrog

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