Ptychohyla
{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}}
{{Redirect|Mountain stream frog|the frog native to highland areas of New South Wales, Australia|Mountain stream tree frog}}
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Ptychohyla is a genus of frogs (common names: stream frogs, mountain stream frogs) in the family Hylidae.{{ITIS|id=207422 |taxon=Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944}} These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Ptychohyla |title=Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944 |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2014 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=18 April 2014}}
Ptychohyla has a pale pink iris and nuptial outgrowth in breeding males that differentiates this new species from other Mexican frog groups.{{Cite journal |last=Caviedes-Solís |first=Itzue W. |title=A new species of treefrog of the genus Ptychohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Southern Mexico |url=https://www.gbif.org/dataset/795485ed-5f1b-46d8-8ce6-1216e579b222 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.5}} This new species usually live in untouched tropical forest. They are known to be vulnerable in modified habitat by humans.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Ptychohyla:
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| P. dendrophasma {{small|(Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000)}} | Phantom treefrog |
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| P. euthysanota {{small|(Kellogg, 1928)}} | Cloud forest stream frog |
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| P. hypomykter {{small|(McCranie and Wilson, 1993)}} | Copan stream frog |
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| P. legleri {{small|(Taylor, 1958)}} | Legler's stream frog |
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| P. leonhardschultzei {{small|(Ahl, 1934)}} | Schultze's stream frog |
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| P. macrotympanum {{small|(Tanner, 1957)}} | Pine forest stream frog |
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| P. salvadorensis {{small|(Mertens, 1952)}} | Salvador stream frog |
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| P. zophodes {{small|(Campbell and Duellman, 2000)}} | Gloomy Mountain stream frog |
References
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- {{aut|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
- {{aut|AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation.}} [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: [http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi-bin/amphib_query?query_src=aw_lists_genera_&table=amphib&where-genus=Ptychohyla&where-species= Ptychohyla]. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).
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Category:Frogs of North America
Category:Amphibians of Central America
Category:Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor
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