Hyla

Hyla
	European tree frog, Hyla arborea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Hylinae
Genus:	Hyla; Laurenti, 1768
Species
	See text.

The genus Hyla is a member of the family of tree frogs (Hylidae). They have a very broad distribution; species can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and across the Americas. There were more than 300 described species in this genus, but after a major revision of the Hylidae family most of these have been moved to new genera so the genus now only contains 33 species".^[1]

The genus was established by Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti in 1768. It was named after Hylas in Greek mythology, the companion of Hercules. The name is unusual in that – though Laurenti knew that Hylas was male – the name is unambiguously treated in the feminine grammatical gender for reasons unknown. The etymology of the name is also often incorrectly given as being derived from the Greek word ὕλη (hūlē, "forest" or "wood").^[2]^[3]

Species

Binomial name	Common name
H. andersonii Baird, 1854	Pine Barrens tree frog
H. annectans (Jerdon, 1870)	Jerdon's tree frog
H. arborea (Linnaeus, 1758)	European tree frog
H. arboricola Taylor, 1941	Arboreal tree frog
H. arenicolor Cope, 1866	Canyon tree frog
H. avivoca Viosca, 1928	Bird-voiced tree frog
H. bocourti Mocquard, 1899	Bocourt's tree frog
H. chinensis Günther, 1858	Common Chinese tree frog
H. chrysoscelis Cope, 1880	Cope's gray tree frog
H. cinerea (Schneider, 1799)	American green tree frog
H. euphorbiacea Günther, 1858	Southern highland tree frog
H. eximia Baird, 1854	Mountain tree frog
H. femoralis Bosc in Daudin, 1800	Pine woods tree frog
H. graceae Myers & Duellman, 1982
H. gratiosa LeConte, 1856	Barking tree frog
H. hallowellii Thompson, 1912	Hallowell's tree frog
H. heinzsteinitzi Grach, Plesser, and Werner, 2007	Mamilla pool tree frog
H. immaculata Boettger, 1888	Spotless tree toad
H. intermedia Boulenger, 1882	Italian tree frog
H. japonica Günther, 1859	Japanese tree frog
H. meridionalis Boettger, 1874	Mediterranean tree frog
H. plicata Brocchi, 1877	Ridged tree frog
H. sanchiangensis Pope, 1929	San Chiang tree frog
H. sarda (De Betta, 1853)	Sardinian tree frog
H. savignyi Audouin, 1827	Middle East tree frog
H. simplex Boettger, 1901	Annam tree frog
H. squirella Bosc in Daudin, 1800	Squirrel tree frog
H. stepheni Boulenger, 1888	Northeast China tree toad
H. suweonensis Kuramoto, 1980	Suweon tree frog
H. tsinlingensis Liu and Hu in Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1966	Shensi tree frog
H. versicolor LeConte, 1825	Gray tree frog
H. walkeri Stuart, 1954	Walker's tree frog
H. wrightorum Taylor, 1939	Wright’s mountain tree frog
H. zhaopingensis Tang and Zhang, 1984	Zhaoping tree frog

"Hyla" group

Faivovich et al. could not assign these species to a current genus, so they allocated them to the non-taxon "Hyla". Further work is needed to organize them.

Binomial name	Common name
H. alboguttata Boulenger, 1882	Whitebelly tree frog
H. helenae Ruthven, 1919	Helena's tree frog
H. imitator (Barbour and Dunn, 1921)	Mimic tree frog
H. inframaculata Boulenger, 1882	Santarem tree frog
H. warreni Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992	Warren's tree frog

References

^ Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.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, Num. 294, pp.1-240. (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/462/1/B294.pdf)
^ Charles W. Myers & Richard B. Stothers (2006). "The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the "father of herpetology"". Archives of Natural History. 33: 241–266. doi:10.3366/anh.2006.33.2.241.
^ "hyla". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) It gives the 'wood' etymology.

External links

Data related to Hyla at Wikispecies Media related to Hyla at Wikimedia Commons

Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October, 2007). Hyla. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Hyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Hyla at http://www.eol.org.

[1] Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.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, Num. 294, pp.1-240. (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/462/1/B294.pdf)

[MYERS-2] Charles W. Myers & Richard B. Stothers (2006). "The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the "father of herpetology"". Archives of Natural History. 33: 241–266. doi:10.3366/anh.2006.33.2.241.

[3] "hyla". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) It gives the 'wood' etymology.

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