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Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: Additions and Nomenclatural Revisions Listas Zoológicas Actualizadas UCR Amphibians and Reptiles of Honduras McCranie, James R. 10770 SW 164 Street / Miami, Florida, 33157-2933 / USA (Originally Published in 2009, Last Actualization on November 12, 2009) INDEX INTRODUCTION Eublepharidae HERPETOFAUNA Gekkonidae AMPHIBIA Gymnophthalmidae GYMNOPHIONA Iguanidae Caeciliidae Leiocephalidae CAUDATA Phrynosomatidae Plethodontidae Polychrotidae ANURA Scincidae Bufonidae Teiidae Centrolenidae Xantusiidae Centroleninae SERPENTES Hyalinobatrachinae Anomalepididae Hylidae Boidae Hylinae Colubridae Phyllomedusinae Colubrinae Craugastoridae Natricinae Eleutherodactylidae Xenodontinae Strabomantidae Elapidae Leiuperidae Leptotyphlopidae Leptodactylidae Loxocemidae Microhylidae Typhlopidae Ranidae Ungaliophiidae Rhinophrynidae Viperidae REPTILIA TESTUDINES CROCODYLIA Cheloniidae Alligatoridae Chelydridae Crocodylidae Dermochelyidae SQUAMATA Emydidae SAURIA Geoemydidae Anguidae Kinosternidae Corytophanidae BIBLIOGRAPHY How to cite? Amphibians and Reptiles of Honduras 1 Museo de Zoología UCR INTRODUCTION McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a) recently reviewed the amphibians of Honduras. Subsequently, numerous nomenclatural changes have been proposed and a few species have been added to the Honduran fauna. The non-avian reptiles of Honduras have not been treated in detail, but such a work is being prepared (McCranie, in prep.). As such, the most recent listing of the reptilian species of the country is that of Wilson and McCranie (2002). The purpose of this list is to update and provide a list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras as currently understood. The comments and cross-references included herein are only those pertaining to references published after McCranie and Castañeda (2007a), McCranie (2006a), and Wilson and McCranie (2002). The amphibians are listed in the same sequence by Order and within families as in McCranie and Castañeda (2007a). The reptiles are listed alphabetically by Order and then families within each Order. This listing does not include the taxonomic changes being proposed in McCranie (in prep.). The numbers in parenthesis following each Order or Suborder are the number of families, genera, and species, respectively, known to occur in Honduras. The numbers in parenthesis following each Family and Subfamily are the number of genera and species, respectively, known to occur in Honduras. The number in parenthesis following each genus is the number of species known to occur in Honduras. An asterisk denotes an introduced and established species. HERPETOFAUNA OF HONDURAS (2 classes, 6 orders, 42 families, 150 genera, 373 species) CLASS AMPHIBIA Gray, 1825 (3 orders, 13 families, 42 genera, 129 species) ORDER GYMNOPHIONA Müller, 1832 (1, 2, 2) FAMILY CAECILIIDAE Rafinesque, 1814 (2, 2) Dermophis Peters, 1879 (1) Dermophis mexicanus (A. M. C. Duméril & Bibron, 1841) Gymnopis Peters, 1874 (1) Gymnopis multiplicata Peters, 1874 ORDER CAUDATA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 (1, 5, 31) FAMILY PLETHODONTIDAE Gray, 1850 (5, 31) Bolitoglossa A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron, & Duméril, 1854 (16) Subgenus Bolitoglossa A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron, & Duméril, 1854 (2) Bolitoglossa mexicana A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron, & Duméril, 1854 Bolitoglossa striatula (Noble, 1918) Subgenus Magnadigita Taylor, 1944 (12) Bolitoglossa carri McCranie & Wilson, 1993 Bolitoglossa cataguana Townsend, Butler, Wilson, & Austin, 2009 Bolitoglossa celaque McCranie & Wilson, 1993 Bolitoglossa conanti McCranie & Wilson, 1993 Bolitoglossa decora McCranie & Wilson, 1997 Bolitoglossa diaphora McCranie & Wilson, 1995 Bolitoglossa dunni (K. Schmidt, 1933) Bolitoglossa heiroreias Greenbaum, 2004 2 McCranie 2009 Listas Zoológicas Actualizadas UCR Bolitoglossa longissima McCranie & Cruz, 1996 Bolitoglossa oresbia McCranie, Espinal, & Wilson, 2005 Bolitoglossa porrasorum McCranie & Wilson, 1995 Bolitoglossa synoria McCranie & Köhler, 1999 Subgenus Nanotriton Parra-Olea, García-París, & Wake, 2004 (1) McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a) included Bolitoglossa (Nanotriton) occidentalis Taylor, 1941 in the Honduran herpetofauna based on one poorly preserved specimen that carried erroneous locality data. That specimen is now thought to represent a juvenile B. mexicana (T. Papenfuss, pers. comm.). Bolitoglossa rufescens (Cope, 1869) Subgenus Pachymandra Parra-Olea, García-París, & Wake, 2004 (1) Bolitoglossa dofleini Werner, 1903 Cryptotriton García-París & Wake, 2000 (1) Cryptotriton nasalis (Dunn, 1924) Dendrotriton Wake & Elias, 1983 (1) Dendrotriton sanctibarbarus (McCranie & Wilson, 1997) Nototriton Wake & Elias, 1983 (4) Nototriton barbouri (K. Schmidt, 1936) Nototriton brodiei Campbell and Smith, 1998. Kolby et al. (2009) reported this species from Honduras. Nototriton lignicola McCranie & Wilson, 1997 Nototriton limnospectator McCranie, Wilson, & Polisar, 1998 Oedipina Keferstein, 1868 (9) McCranie et al. (2008) demonstrated that the O. cyclocauda of McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a) actually consisted of three undescribed species. Subgenus Oedipina Keferstein, 1868 (4) Oedipina ignea Stuart, 1952 Oedipina leptopoda McCranie, Vieites, & Wake, 2008 Oedipina stuarti Brame, 1968 Oedipina taylori Stuart, 1952 Subgenus Oeditriton McCranie, Vieites, & Wake, 2008 Oedipina kasios McCranie, Vieites, & Wake, 2008 Oedipina quadra McCranie, Vieites, & Wake, 2008 Subgenus Oedopinola Hilton, 1946 (3) Oedipina elongata (K. Schmidt, 1936) Oedipina gephyra McCranie, Wilson, & Williams, 1993 Oedipina tomasi McCranie, 2006 ORDER ANURA Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 (11, 35, 96) FAMILY BUFONIDAE Gray, 1825 (4, 8) Atelophryniscus McCranie, Wilson, & Williams, 1989 (1) Atelophryniscus chrysophorus McCranie, Wilson, & Williams, 1989 Chaunus Wagler, 1828 (1) I follow Savage and Bolaños (2009) in retaining the following species in Chaunus rather than in Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 as recently proposed by some authors. Chaunus marinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Incilius Cope, 1863 (5) Amphibians and Reptiles of Honduras 3 Museo de Zoología UCR The following five species were included in Ollotis Cope, 1875 by McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a). Also, I do not recognize I. ibarrai (Stuart, 1954) or I. porteri (Mendelson, Williams, Sheil, & Mulcahy, 2005) as valid species occurring in Honduras for the reasons discussed by McCranie and Castañeda (2007a). Despite the recent review of the I. coccifer complex by Mendelson et al. (2005), a thorough review of this complex is needed that includes all known populations, especially those of the large specimens occurring in the lowlands of southern Honduras. Incilius campbelli (Mendelson, 1994) Incilius coccifer (Cope, 1866) Incilius leucomyos (McCranie & Wilson, 2000) Incilius luetkenii (Boulenger, 1891) Incilius valliceps (Wiegmann, 1833) Rhaebo Cope, 1862 (1) Rhaebo haematiticus (Cope, 1862) FAMILY CENTROLENIDAE Taylor, 1951 (5, 8) The classification of this Family follows Guayasamin et al. (2009). SUBFAMILY CENTROLENINAE Taylor, 1951 (4, 5) Cochranella Taylor, 1951 (1) Cochranella granulosa (Taylor, 1949) Espadarana Guayasamin, Castroviejo–Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, & Vilà, 2009 (1) The following species was included in Centrolene Jiménez de la Espada, 1872 by McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a). Espadarana prosoblepon (Boettger, 1892) Sachatamia Guayasamin, Castroviejo–Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, & Vilà, 2009 (1) The following species was included in Cochranella by McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a). Sachatamia albomaculata (Taylor, 1949) Teratohyla Taylor, 1951 (2) The following two species were included in Hyalinobatrachium and Cochranella, respectively, by McCranie and Castañeda (2007a) and McCranie (2006a). Teratohyla pulverata (Peters, 1873) Teratohyla spinosa (Taylor, 1949) SUBFAMILY HYALINOBATRACHINAE Guayasamin, Castroviejo–Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, & Vilà, 2009 (1, 3) Hyalinobatrachium Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991 (3) The following two species were placed in the synonymy of H. chirripoi (Taylor, 1958) and H. colymbiphyllum (Taylor, 1949), respectively, by Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid (2007). However, the phylogeny based on nuclear genes recovered by Guayasamin et al. (2008, 2009) showed H. cardiacalyptum and H. chirripoi to be paraphyletic with respect to H. colymbiphyllum. Thus, I continue to recognize H. cardiacalyptum as a valid species. I also doubt the validity of placing H. crybetes in the synonymy of H. colymbiphyllum and continue to recognize the former as a distinct species pending rediscovery of the species and study of its molecular data and advertisement call. Hyalinobatrachium cardiacalyptum McCranie & Wilson, 1997 Hyalinobatrachium crybetes McCranie & Wilson, 1997 Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Boettger, 1893) 4 McCranie 2009 Listas Zoológicas Actualizadas UCR FAMILY HYLIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 (16, 34) SUBFAMILY HYLINAE Rafinesque, 1815 (14, 30) Anotheca H. Smith, 1939 (1) Anotheca spinosa (Steindachner, 1864) Bromeliohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, & Wheeler, 2005 (1) Bromeliohyla bromeliacia (K. Schmidt, 1933) Dendropsophus Fitzinger, 1843 (2) Dendropsophus ebraccatus (Cope, 1874) Dendropsophus microcephalus (Cope, 1886) Duellmanohyla Campbell & Smith, 1992 (2) Duellmanohyla salvavida (McCranie & Wilson, 1986) Duellmanohyla soralia (Wilson & McCranie, 1985) Ecnomiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, & Wheeler, 2005 (2) Ecnomiohyla miliaria (Cope, 1886) Ecnomiohyla salvaje (Wilson, McCranie, & Williams, 1985) Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879 (1)
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