MCZ Herpetology A-1518

Osteopilus dominicensis (Tschudi, 1838)

Holotype of Trachycephalus ovatus

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 1996-10-07

Central America: Haiti: Grand Anse Department: Greater Antilles: Hispaniola | Jeremie

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Herp:A-1518 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Osteopilus dominicensis (Tschudi, 1838)
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Hylidae
Common Name(s): Hispaniolan common treefrog
Determiner: systematic card on 2021-08-26
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identifications
Trachycephalus ovatus
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Hylidae
Determiner: Edward Drinker Cope
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: EHCope/1863
Trachycephalus ovatus
Animalia Chordata Amphibia Lissamphibia Anura Bufonoidea Hylidae
Determiner: José Rosado on 2018-09-19
Nature of ID: erroneous on label

Cope 1863, page 44, Holotype of Trachycephalus ovatus

  • muse location number: ZA1518

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: muscle?; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-08-12
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2021-08-06   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (ethanol) unchecked in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Rina Morisawa 2021-08-12

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Haiti
  • State/Province:
  • Grand Anse Department
  • Island Group:
  • Greater Antilles
  • Island:
  • Hispaniola
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7005511 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Jeremie
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Jeremie, Hayti
  • Georeference:
  • 18.6403007°, -74.116897° (Error radius: 3.449km) By: Elisa Bonaccorso on 2004-06-18 (Source: JOG NE 18-7 (1:250,000))
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 1996-10-07
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • End of date collected range set to latest date of data entry for a cataloged item in this collecting event
  • Collector:
  • Weinland

  • None

Media type: text; Herpetology R-20294 documents cataloged_item A-1583 documents cataloged_item A-1585 documents cataloged_item A-1611 documents cataloged_item A-1518 documents cataloged_item R-11190 documents cataloged_item R-5788 Description: Herpetology Types volume, 1929, page 155;

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Media type: text; Herpetology A-1501; A-1502; A-1503; A-1504; A-1505; A-1506; A-1507; A-1508; A-1509; A-1510; A-1511; A-1512; A-1513; A-1514; A-1515; A-1516; A-1517; A-1518; A-1519; A-1520; A-1521; A-1522; A-1523; A-1524; A-1525 Description: MCZ Herpetology Amphibia 000001-003000, pg.61;

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