Ptychohyla
| Ptychohyla | |
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| Ptychohyla salvadorensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Taylor, 1944 |
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Ptychohyla is a genus of frogs (common names: stream frogs, mountain stream frogs) in the family Hylidae.[1][2] These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.[1]
Ptychohyla has a pale pink iris and nuptial outgrowth in breeding males that differentiates this new species from other Mexican frog groups.[3] This new species usually live in untouched tropical forest. They are known to be vulnerable in modified habitat by humans.[3]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus 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
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b Caviedes-Solís, Itzue W. "A new species of treefrog of the genus Ptychohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Southern Mexico". doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.5.
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- Duellman, W. E. (1960): Synonymy, variation, and distribution of Ptychohyla leonhard-schultzei Ahl. Studies of American hylid frogs. IV - Herpetologica 16: 191–197
External links
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Ptychohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).