Ptychohyla

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Ptychohyla
Ptychohyla salvadorensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Ptychohyla
Taylor, 1944
Species

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Ptychohyla is a genus. It is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are called stream frogs or mountain stream frogs in English.[1][2] These frogs live in southern Mexico and Central America. They live in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca and all the way south to Panama.[1]

Species[change | change source]

These species are in Ptychohyla:[1]

Binomial name and author Common name
P. dendrophasma (Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000) Phantom treefrog
P. euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928) Cloud forest stream frog
P. hypomykter (McCranie and Wilson, 1993) Copan stream frog
P. legleri (Taylor, 1958) Legler's stream frog
P. leonhardschultzei (Ahl, 1934) Schultze's stream frog
P. macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957) Pine forest stream frog
P. salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952) Salvador stream frog
P. zophodes (Campbell and Duellman, 2000) Gloomy Mountain stream frog

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  2. "Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Duellman, W. E. (1960): Synonymy, variation, and distribution of Ptychohyla leonhard-schultzei Ahl. Studies of American hylid frogs. IV - Herpetologica 16: 191–197

Other websites[change | change source]

  • AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Ptychohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).