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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.

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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

Pertinent LIterature:
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
1966 Smith, Philip W. Hyla avivoca. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (28):1–2
2005 Lannoo, Michael (Editor) Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University fo California Press, Berkeley. 1115pp.
2013 Dodd, C. Kenneth. Frogs of the United States and Canada. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 982pp.
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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