Schmidt's mountain brook frog
{{Short description|Species of amphibian}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Duellmanohyla schmidtorum, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico imported from iNaturalist photo 61492773.jpg
| status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Duellmanohyla schmidtorum
| authority = ({{Interlanguage link multi|Laurence Cooper Stuart|fr|lt=Stuart}}, 1954)
| synonyms = Ptychohyla schmidtorum Stuart, 1954
}}
Schmidt's mountain brook frog (Duellmanohyla schmidtorum) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to the Pacific slopes of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southwestern Guatemala and southern Mexico in eastern Oaxaca and southwestern Chiapas.{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Duellmanohyla/Duellmanohyla-schmidtorum |title=Duellmanohyla schmidtorum (Stuart, 1954) |author=Frost, Darrel R. |year=2015 |work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 |publisher=American Museum of Natural History |access-date=26 December 2015}} It is named after Karl Patterson Schmidt, American herpetologist, and his brother Frank, who collected with him.{{cite book|author1=Bo Beolens|author2=Michael Watkins|author3=Michael Grayson |name-list-style=amp |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZY3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT302|date=22 April 2013|publisher=Pelagic Publishing|isbn=978-1-907807-42-8|pages=302–303}}
The species' natural habitats are montane cloud forests, elevations {{convert|1300|–|2200|m|abbr=on}} above sea level. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by deforestation and infrastructure development, and possibly, chytridiomycosis.
References
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External links
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Duellmanohyla schmidtorum}}
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Category:Amphibians of Guatemala
Category:Amphibians described in 1954
Category:Taxa named by Laurence Cooper Stuart
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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