Dendropsophus microcephalus (Cope, 1886) FAIVOVICH & HADDAD & GARCIA & FROST & CAMPBELL & WHEELER, 2005

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 : 91-92

Dendropsophus microcephalus Group

DIAGNOSIS: This species group is diagnosed by 42 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial protein and ribosomal genes. See appendix 5 for a complete list of these molecular synapomorphies. Morphological synapomorphies include the lack of labial tooth rows and marginal papillae (Duellman and Trueb, 1983) (a reversal occurs in the Dendropsophus decipiens clade).

COMMENTS: This group now includes all species from the Hyla decipiens , H. microcephala , and H. rubicundula groups. We did not test the monophyly of the H. decipiens or H. rubicundula groups. We continue rec­ ognition of the Dendropsophus microcephalus group and within it, pending a rigorous test, a D. decipiens clade (including H. berthalutzae , H. decipiens , H. haddadi , and H. oliveirai ), and a D. rubicundulus clade (including H. anataliasiasi , H. araguaya , H. cachimbo , H. cerradensis , H. elianeae , H. jimi , H. rhea , H. rubicundula , and H. tritaeniata ). Putative synapomorphies of the D. decipiens clade are the oviposition on leaves overhanging water (homoplastic with the D. leucophyllatus group and some species of the now D. parviceps group) and the presence of a posterior row of marginal papillae (a reversal). A putative synapomorphy of the D. rubicundulus clade is the green dorsum in life that changes to pinkish or violet when preserved (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1998).

It seems likely that additional synapomorphies for at least some species of Dendropsophus microcephalus group will be hypothesized as larval anatomy is carefully studied. For example, the four species of the group studied by Spirandeli Cruz (1991) and Wassersug (1980) ( H. microcephala , H. nana , H. phlebodes , H. sanborni ) show knob­like vestiges of the filter rows in larvae. It also remains to be seen whether the peculiarities of the mannicoto glandulare described by Lajmanovich et al. (2000) for H. nana are common to other larvae of the group.

CONTENTS: Thirty­three species. Dendropsophus anataliasiasi (Bokermann, 1972) , new comb.; Dendropsophus araguaya (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1998) , new comb.; Dendropsophus berthalutzae (Bokermann, 1962) , new comb.; Dendropsophus bipunctatus (Spix, 1824) , new comb.; Dendropsophus branneri (Cochran, 1948) , new comb.; Dendropsophus decipiens (A. Lutz, 1925) , new comb.; Dendropsophus cachimbo (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1999) , new comb.; Dendropsophus cerradensis (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1998) new comb.; Dendropsophus cruzi (Pombal and Bastos, 1998) , new comb.; Dendropsophus elianeae (Napoli and Caramaschi, 2000) , new comb.; Dendropsophus gryllatus (Duellman, 1973) , new comb.; Dendropsophus haddadi (Bastos and Pombal, 1996) , new comb.; Dendropsophus jimi (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1999) , new comb.; Dendropsophus joannae (Köhler and Lötters, 2001) , new comb.; Dendropsophus leali (Bokermann, 1964) , new comb.; Dendropsophus mathiassoni (Cochran and Goin, 1970) , new comb.; Dendropsophus meridianus (B. Lutz, 1954) , new comb.; Dendropsophus microcephalus (Cope, 1886) , new comb.; Dendropsophus minusculus (Rivero, 1971) , new comb.; Dendropsophus nanus (Boulenger, 1889) , new comb.; Dendropsophus oliveirai (Bokermann, 1963) , new comb.; Dendropsophus phlebodes (Stejneger, 1906) , new comb.; Dendropsophus pseudomeridianus (Cruz et al., 2000) , new comb.; Dendropsophus rhea (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1999) , new comb.; Dendropsophus rhodopeplus (Günther, 1858) , new comb.; Dendropsophus robertmertensi (Taylor, 1937) , new comb.; Dendropsophus rubicundulus (Reinhardt and Lütken, ‘‘1861’’ [1862]), new comb.; Dendropsophus sanborni (Schmidt, 1944) , new comb.; Dendropsophus sartori (Smith, 1951) , new comb.; Dendropsophus studerae (Carvalho e Silva, Carvalho e Silva, and Izecksohn, 2003) , new comb.; Dendropsophus tritaeniatus (Bokermann, 1965) , new comb.; Dendropsophus walfordi (Bokermann, 1962) , new comb.; Dendropsophus werneri (Cochran, 1952) , new comb.