Boana xerophylla (Duméril and Bibron 1841)

Barrio-Amorós, César L., Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Señaris, J. Celsa, 2019, Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 180) 13 (1), pp. 1-198 : 68

Boana xerophylla (Duméril and Bibron 1841)

Lectotype: MNHN 652 .

Type locality: Cayenne, French Guiana.

Distribution: Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil. Widespread in Venezuela in open and disturbed areas, 0–2,300 m asl.

Remarks: In Boana faber species group ( Faivovich et al. 2005) by implication. Recently recovered from synonymy of B. crepitans by Orrico et al. (2017). Several authors gave evidence that B. crepitans was a complex ( Kluge 1979; Lynch and Suarez-Mayorga 2001; Gorzula and Señaris 1999; Martins et al. 2009). The resurrection of B. xerophylla as the northern South American representative of the crepitans complex does not change the panorama much. As reported previously by Barrio-Amorós (2004), at least four different taxa were under the name B. crepitans only in Venezuela. Now, all of them pass automatically to be named B. xerophylla . However, only the southeastern population (a blue morph from rainforest lowlands in eastern Venezuela; Barrio-Amorós et al. 2011b) should be known as B. xerophylla sensu stricto, as it is conspecific with the French Guiana population (Lescure and Marty 2000). All other populations from Northern Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama deserve further attention. So, in Venezuela three more populations now being B. xerophylla represent different taxa. One is from the Coastal Range and Andes up to 2,300 m plus the upper Llanos; another is from the western piedmont of the Cordillera de Mérida towards the Maracaibo Lake Basin; another is a green morph from the Gran Sabana (mentioned already as different by Duellman 1997).

Selected references: Günther (1858); Boettger (1892, 1893, 1896); Boulenger (1903); Lutz (1927); Alemán (1952, 1953); Ginés (1959); Rohl (1959); Rivero (1961, 1963 c, 1964a-d, 1967a, 1971a); Heatwole et al. (1965); Tello (1968); Rivero and Esteves (1969); Donoso-Barros and León-Ochoa (1972); Staton and Dixon (1977); Hoogmoed and Gorzula (1979); Rivero-Blanco and Dixon (1979); Rada (1981); Péfaur and Díaz De Pascual (1987); Ramo and Busto (1989, 1990); La Marca (1991b “1994,” 1992, 1996a); Magdefrau et al. (1991); Manzanilla et al. (1995); Péfaur and Pérez (1995); Barrio (1996a); Yústiz (1996); Duellman (1997); Gorzula and Señaris (1998); Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga (2002); Barrio-Amorós (2006c); Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carías (2008); Barrio-Amorós et al. (2011b); Mendoza (2014); Señaris et al. (2014); Orrico et al. (2017).