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Pine Barrens Treefrog
Dryophytes andersonii (Baird, 1854)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 This species has a conspicuously fragmented range across eastern North America that mirrors that of some wetland-associated plant species (Warwick et al., 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 120–134). Remarkably, no subspecies have ever been proposed. Recent molecular work by Oswald et al. (2020, Journal of Herpetology. 54: 206–215) found geographic variation consistent with geographic isolation and estimated divergence times, but neither work suggested that taxonomic changes at any level were warranted.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.23.01.41)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida New Jersey North Carolina South Carolina

First instance(s) of published English names:
Anderson's Tree Toad (Hyla andersonii: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Anderson's Tree Toad (Hyla andersonii: Jordan, David S. 1878. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Second Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. Jansen, McClurg & Company, Chicago. pp.); Anderson's Hyla (Hyla andersoni: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Anderson Tree Toad (Hyla andersonii: Fowler, Henry W. 1907. The amphibians and reptiles of New Jersey. MacCrellish and Quigley, Trenton, N. J.. 29-250pp.); Green and Yellow Tree-toad (Hyla andersonii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Anderson's Tree Frog (Hyla andersonii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Anderson's Hyla (Hyla andersonii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Anderson Tree-frog (Hyla andersonii: Wright, Anna Allen, and Alex Hazen Wright. 1933. Handbook of frogs and toads. The frogs and toads of the United States and Canada Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, NY. xi+231pp.); Pine Barrens Tree Frog (Hyla andersoni: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1854 Baird, Spencer F. Descriptions of new genera and species of North American frogs. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:59–62
1965 Bullard, A. J. Additional records of the treefrog Hyla andersonii from the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Herpetologica 21:154-155
1967 Gosner, K. L. and I. H. Black. Hyla andersonii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (54):1–2
1970 Christman, Steven P. Hyla andersonii in Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Science 33:80
1976 Means, D. Bruce and Clive J. Longden. Aspects of the biology and zoogeography of the Pine Barrens treefrog (Hyla andersonii) in northern Florida. Herpetologica 32(2):117-130
1978 Maxson, Linda R. Immunological evidence pertaining to relationships between old world Hyla arborea (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae) and North American Hyla. Journal of Herpetology 12(1):98-100
1980 Mount, Robert H. Distribution and status of the Pine Barrens Treefrog, Hyla andersonii, in Alabama. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Auburn, Alabama. 30pp.
1980 Brown, E. E. Some historical data bearing on the Pine Barrens Treefrog, Hyla andersonii, in South Carolina. Brimleyana 3:113-117
1981 Tardell, J. H., R. C. Yates and D. H. Schiller. New records and habitat observations of Hyla andersonii Baird (Anura: Hylidae) in Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties, South Carolina. Brimleyana 6:153-158
1981 Moler, Paul E. Notes on Hyla andersonii in Florida and Alabama. Journal of Herpetology 15(4):441-444
1981 Hulmes, D., P. Hulmes, and Robert Zappalorti. Notes on the ecology and distribution of the Pine Barrens Treefrog, Hyla andersonii, in New Jersey. Bulletin of the New York Herpetological Society 17(1):2-19
1982 Wiley, John E. Chromosome banding patterns of treefrogs (Hylidae) of the eastern United States. Herpetologica 38(4):507-520
1982 Karlin, Alvan A. , D., Bruce Means, Sheldon I. Guttman, and Daphne D. Lambright. Systematics and the Status of Hyla andersonii (Anura: Hylidae) in Florida. Copeia 1982(1):175-178
1983 Cely, J. E. and J. A. Sorrow, Jr. Distribution, status, and habitat of the Pine Barrens Treefrog in South Carolina. Final report. South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, Columbia, South Carolina. 55pp.
1983 Means, D. Bruce. The enigmatic Pine Barrens Treefrog. Florida Wildlife 37:16-19
1986 Cely, J. E. and J. A. Sorrow, Jr. Distribution and habitat of Hyla andersonii in South Carolina. Journal of Herpetology 20:102-104
1991 Highton, Richard H. Molecular phylogeny of Plethodonine salamanders and Hylid frogs: Statistical analysis of protein comparisons. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(6):796-818
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2005 Faivovich, J., C. F. B. Haddad, P. C. de A. Garcia, D. R. Frost, J. A. Campbell, and W. C. Wheeler. Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (294):1–240
2009 Hua, Xia, Cuizhang Fu, Jiatang Li, Adrian Nieta Montes de Oca and John J. Wiens. A revised phylogeny of holarctic treefrogs (Genus Hyla) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Herpetologica 65(3):246-259
2010 Wiens, John J., Caitlin A. Kuczynski, Xia Hua, and Daniel S. Moen. An expanded phylogeny of treefrogs (Hylidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:871-882
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2014 Warwick , Alexa R. and Emily Moriarty Lemmon Development and characterization of 21 microsatellite loci for the Pine Barrens Treefrog (Hyla andersonii). Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 6:719–721
2014 Bryson, Robert W., Brian Tilston Smith, Adrian Nieto-Montes de Oca, Uri Omar Garcia-Vazquez, and Brett R. Riddle. The role of mitochondrial introgression in illuminating the evolutionary history of Nearctic treefrogs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(1):103-116
2015 Warwick, Alexa R., Joseph Travis, and Emily Moriarty Lemmon. Geographic variation in the Pine Barrens Treefrog (Hyla andersonii): Concordance of genetic, morphometric and acoustic signal data. Molecular Ecology 24(13):3281-3298
2016 Duellman, William E., Angela B. Marion, and S. Blair Hedges. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4101(1):109
2020 Oswald, Kenneth J., Mark A. Roberts, Paul E. Moler, Rudolf G. Arndt, Jeffrey D. Camper and Joseph M. Quattro. Wetlands, evolution, and conservation of the Pine Barrens Treefrog (Hyla andersonii). Journal of Herpetology 54(2):206–215
2021 Warwick, Alexa R., Lisa N. Barrow, Megan L. Smith, D. Bruce Means, Alan R. Lemmon, and Emily Moriarty Lemmon. Signatures of north-eastern expansion and multiple refugia: Genomic phylogeography of the Pine Barrens tree frog, Hyla andersonii (Anura: Hylidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(1):120-134
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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