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Canyon Treefrog
Dryophytes arenicolor (Cope, 1866)

Current SSAR Comments:
Bryson et al. (2010, Evolution, 64: 2315–2340) also reported on molecular geographic variation and demonstrated introgression with D. wrightorum. Based only on the mitochondrial subset of their data, Li et al. (2015, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 87: 80–90) found multiple divergent lineages within a monophyletic D. arenicolor. Barber (1999, Molecular Ecology 8: 563–576) examined geographic variation and suggested that at least two other species should be recognized within the Mexican component of its range.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Cope's Hyla (Hyla arenicolor: 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); Canyon Tree-toad (Hyla arenicolor: 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.); Arizona Tree Frog (Hyla arenicolor: 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.); Canyon Tree Frog (Hyla arenicolor: 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.); Desert Tree-Toad (Hyla arenicolor: 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.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1866 Cope, Edward D. On the structures and distribution of the genera of the arciferous Anura. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Series 2 6():67–112
1999 Barber, Paul H. Patterns of gene flow and population genetic structure in the canyon treefrog, Hyla arenicolor (Cope). Molecular Ecology 8(4):563-576
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2010 Bryson, Robert W. , Jr., Adrian Nieto-Montes de Oca, Jef R. Jaeger, and Brett R. Riddle. Elucidation of cryptic diversity in a widespread Nearctic treefrog reveals episodes of mitochondrial gene capture as frogs diversified across a dynamic landscape. Evolution 64(8):2315–2330
2012 Klymus, Katy E. and H. Carl Gerhardt. AFLP markers resolve intra-specific relationships and infer genetic structure among lineages of the Canyon Treefrog, Hyla arenicolor. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(2):654-667
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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