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Bird-voiced Treefrog
Dryophytes avivoca (Viosca, 1928)

Current SSAR Comments:
Smith (1953, Herpetologica 9: 169–173) discussed geographic variation and recognized two nominal subspecies which are rarely employed, and apparently have not been explicitly tested.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.01.09.09.17)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee

First instance(s) of published English names:
Whistling Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca: 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.); Bird-voiced Hyla (Hyla avivoca: 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.); Viosca's Tree Frog (Hyla avivoca: 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.); Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla phaeocrypta: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Eastern Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla phaeocrypta ogechiensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Western Bird-voiced Tree Frog (Hyla phaeocrypta phaeocrypta: 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:
1928 Viosca, Percy, Jr. A new species of Hyla from Louisiana. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 41():89–91
1948 Neill, Wilford T. A new subspecies of tree-frog from Georgia and South Carolina. Herpetologica 4():175–179
1953 Smith, Philip W. A reconsideration of the status of Hyla phaeocrypta. Herpetologica 9(4):169-173
1961 Blair, Albert P. and Hague L. Lindsay, Jr. Hyla avivoca (Hylidae) in Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 6(3-4):202
1966 Smith, Philip W. Hyla avivoca. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (28):1–2
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
1982 Wiley, John E. Chromosome banding patterns of treefrogs (Hylidae) of the eastern United States. Herpetologica 38(4):507-520
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
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
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 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
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
2023 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. Second Edition. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 1032pp.

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