Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (Daudin, 1800)

FAIVOVICH, JULIÁN, HADDAD, CÉLIO F. B., GARCIA, PAULO C. A., FROST, DARREL R., CAMPBELL, JONATHAN A. & WHEELER, WARD 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 2005 (294), pp. 1-240 : 117

Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis Group

DIAGNOSIS: We are not aware of any synapomorphy of this group.

COMMENTS: We included a single species of this group, and as such we did not test its monophyly, but we recognize it following Brandão (2002), pending a rigorous test of its monophyly. Manzano and Lavilla (1995b) described the muscle epicoracoideus in Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis , and Manzano (1997) noticed its absence in other species that she studied ( P. atelopoides , P. boliviana , and P. sauvagii ). Our observations on the only other species of the group available to us, P. rohdei (AMNH A­20263), indicate that it also has the m. epicoracoideus, so we consider the presence of this muscle a possible synapomorphy of the group. All species

29 The only exception we are aware of is the larvae of Phyllomedusa vaillanti , where P­3 almost equals P­2 (Caramaschi and Jim, 1983).

of this group lack vomerine teeth, as do Phasmahyla , Phyllomedusa palliata and some species of Phrynomedusa (Brandão, 2002; Cruz, 1990). The taxonomic distribution of other myological peculiarities described by Manzano and Lavilla (1995b) in P. hypochondrialis , such as the presence of thin and/or shortened muscles, and unusual insertions of some of them, needs to be assessed in other Phyllomedusinae .

CONTENTS: Six species. Phyllomedusa ayeaye (B. Lutz, 1966) ; Phyllomedusa centralis Bokermann, 1965 ; Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis (Daudin, 1800) ; Phyllomedusa megacephala (Miranda­Ribeiro, 1926) ; Phyllomedusa oreades Brandão, 2002 ; Phyllomedusa rohdei Mertens, 1926 .