Ptychohyla

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]

"Mountain stream frog" redirects here. For the frog native to highland areas of New South Wales, Australia, see Mountain stream tree frog.

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

See text.

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 authorCommon 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
  1. 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.
  3. 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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Duellman, W. E. (1960): Synonymy, variation, and distribution of Ptychohyla leonhard-schultzei Ahl. Studies of American hylid frogs. IV - Herpetologica 16: 191–197
  • AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Ptychohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).


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