Boana

Boana is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are called gladiator frogs, gladiator treefrogs or Wagler Neotropical treefrogs. These frogs live in tropical Central and South America from Nicaragua to Argentina.  They also live in the Caribbean, in Trinidad and Tobago.

For a while, scientists thought using this genus was a mistake.  They started using it again after taking a long look again at Hylidae. They decided that about 70 species that they had put in the genus Hyla should be in Boana instead. Since then, scientists have written reports about many newly discovered Boana species.

Species
As of April 2020, there are 95 species of frogs in this genus:
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 Boana aguilari (Lehr, Faivovich, and Jungfer, 2010)
 Boana albomarginata (Spix, 1824) – white-edged tree frog
 Boana albonigra (Nieden, 1923) – white-black tree frog
 Boana albopunctata (Spix, 1824) – yellow-spotted tree frog
 Boana alemani (Rivero, 1964) – Cagua tree frog
 Boana alfaroi (Caminer and Ron, 2014)
 Boana almendarizae (Caminer and Ron, 2014)
 Boana appendiculata (Boulenger, 1882)
 Boana atlantica (Caramaschi and Velosa, 1996)
 Boana balzani (Boulenger, 1898) – Yungas tree frog
 Boana bandeirantes (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2013)
 Boana beckeri (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004)
 Boana bischoffi (Boulenger, 1887) – Bischoff's tree frog
 Boana boans (Linnaeus, 1758) – rusty tree frog
 Boana botumirim (Caramaschi, Cruz, and Nascimento, 2009)
 Boana buriti (Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999)
 Boana caiapo (Pinheiro, Cintra, Valdujo, Silva, Martins, Silva, and Garcia, 2018)
 Boana caingua (Carrizo, 1991) – striped tree frog
 Boana caipora (Antunes, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2008)
 Boana calcarata (Troschel, 1848) – Troschel's tree frog or, convict tree frog
 Boana callipleura (Boulenger, 1902) – Charuplaya tree frog
 Boana cambui (Pinheiro, Pezzuti, Leite, Garcia, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2016)
 Boana cinerascens (Spix, 1824) – Demerara Falls tree frog
 Boana clepsydra (Lutz, 1925) – São Paulo tree frog
 Boana cipoensis (Lutz, 1968)
 Boana cordobae (Barrio, 1965) - Córdoba tree frog
 Boana crepitans (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) – emerald-eyed tree frog
 Boana curupi (Garcia, Faivovich, and Haddad, 2007)
 Boana cymbalum (Bokermann, 1963) – Campo Grande tree frog
 Boana dentei (Bokermann, 1967) – Amapa tree frog
 Boana diabolica (Fouquet et al., 2016)
 Boana ericae (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000)
 Boana exastis (Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2003)
 Boana faber (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) – blacksmith tree frog
 Boana fasciata (Günther, 1858) – Gunther's banded tree frog
 Boana freicanecae (Carnaval and Peixoto, 2004)
 Boana geographica (Spix, 1824) – map tree frog
 Boana gladiator (Köhler et al., 2010) - Cusco gladiator tree frog
 Boana goiana (Lutz, 1968)
 Boana guentheri (Boulenger, 1886) – Gunther's Brazilian tree frog
 Boana heilprini (Noble, 1923) – Los Bracitos tree frog
 Boana hobbsi (Cochran and Goin, 1970) – Hobbs' tree frog
 Boana hutchinsi (Pyburn and Hall, 1984) – Hutchins' tree frog
 Boana icamiaba (Pelosoet al., 2018)
 Boana jaguariaivensis (Caramaschi, Cruz, and Segalla, 2010)
 Boana jimenezi (Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2006)
 Boana joaquini (Lutz, 1968)
 Boana lanciformis (Cope, 1871) – basin tree frog
 Boana latistriata (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004)
 Boana lemai (Rivero, 1972) – Lema tree frog
 Boana leptolineata (Braun and Braun, 1977) – fine-lined tree frog
 Boana leucocheila (Caramaschi and Niemeyer, 2003)
 Boana lundii (Burmeister, 1856) – Usina tree frog
 Boana maculateralis (Caminer and Ron, 2014)
 Boana marginata (Boulenger, 1887) – Mundo Novo tree frog
 Boana marianitae (Carrizo, 1992) – Salta tree frog
 Boana melanopleura (Boulenger, 1912) – Lower Andes tree frog
 Boana microderma (Pyburn, 1977) – smallskin tree frog
 Boana multifasciata (Günther, 1859) – many-banded tree frog
 Boana nigra (Caminer and Ron, 2020)
 Boana nympha (Faivovich, Moravec, Cisneros-Heredia, and Köhler, 2006)
 Boana ornatissima (Noble, 1923) – ornate tree frog
 Boana palaestes (Duellman, De la Riva, and Wild, 1997)
 Boana paranaiba (Carvalho and Giaretta, 2010)
 Boana pardalis (Spix, 1824) – leopard tree frog
 Boana pellucens (Werner, 1901) – palmar tree frog 
 Boana phaeopleura (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000)
 Boana platanera
 Boana picturata (Boulenger, 1899) – Imbabura tree frog
 Boana poaju (Garcia, Peixoto, and Haddad, 2008)
 Boana polytaenia (Cope, 1870) – Cope's eastern Paraguay tree frog
 Boana pombali (Caramaschi, Pimenta, and Feio, 2004)
 Boana prasina (Burmeister, 1856) – Burmeister's tree frog
 Boana pugnax (Schmidt, 1857) – Chirique-Flusse tree frog
 Boana pulchella (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) – Montevideo tree frog
 Boana pulidoi (Rivero, 1961) – Benitez's tree frog
 Boana punctata (Schneider, 1799) – polka-dot tree frog
 Boana raniceps (Cope, 1862) – Chaco tree frog
 Boana rhythmica (Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2002)
 Boana riojana (Koslowsky, 1895)
 Boana roraima (Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992) – Hoogmoed's tree frog
 Boana rosenbergi (Boulenger, 1898) – Rosenberg's tree frog
 Boana rubracyla (Cochran and Goin, 1970) – Valle tree frog
 Boana rufitela (Fouquette, 1961) – Canal Zone tree frog
 Boana secedens (Lutz, 1963) – Barro Branco tree frog
 Boana semiguttata (Lutz, 1925) – speckled tree frog
 Boana semilineata (Spix, 1824)
 Boana sibleszi (Rivero, 1972) – La Escalera tree frog
 Boana steinbachi (Boulenger, 1905)
 Boana stellae (Kwet, 2008)
 Boana stenocephala (Caramaschi and Cruz, 1999)
 Boana tepuiana (Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 2008)
 Boana tetete (Caminer and Ron, 2014) - Tetete tree frog
 Boana ventrimaculata (Caminer and Ron, 2020) - Yasuní tree frog
 Boana wavrini (Parker, 1936) – Upper Orinoco tree frog
 Boana xerophylla (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) - emerald-eyed tree frog
 Boana fuentei (Goin and Goin, 1968) – Fuente's Powakka tree frog, a population of emerald-eyed tree frogs
}}Hyla palliata and Hypsiboas hypselops'' are also listed in this article because scientists are not sure about them.

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