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Rediscovery and Taxonomic Status of Hyla splendens Schmidt, 1857 (Anura: Hylidae)

1999; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; Volume: 1999; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1447402

1938-5110

William E. Duellman, Ignacio De la Riva,

Animal and Plant Science Education

and western South America (Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia). In addition to his extensive plant collections, his shipments to Europe contained preserved specimens of amphibians and reptiles, which were reported by Schmidt (1857, 1858). Several of Warszewicz's specimens were designated as types of new taxa. As noted by Savage (1970), locality data for some specimens seem to be incorrect, in that some species recorded from Chiriqui and Veraguas, Panama, have never been found subsequently in Central America. Thus, Savage (1969) associated Schmidt's name Bufo veraguensis, purportedly from Veraguas, Panama, with a population on the Andean slopes of southern Peru formerly known as Bufo ockendeni Boulenger. In 1968, one of us (WED) examined the holotype of Hyla splendens described by Schmidt, purportedly from western Panama. Duellman (1970) stated that the frog was not a member of the Central American herpetofauna and considered it to be a member of the Andean assem-