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Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Ptychohyla

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Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 41. Type species: Ptychohyla adipoventris Taylor, 1944 (= Hyla leonhardschultzei Ahl, 1934), by original designation.

English Names

Mountain Stream Frogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 26; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 21).

Stream Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Distribution

Moderate elevations of southern Mexico (Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca) southeastward in Central America to western Panama.

Comment

Genus redefined by Campbell and Smith, 1992, Herpetologica, 48: 153-167. Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1000-1026, provided a cladogram and accounts for the species. McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 311-324, provided accounts for the species of Honduras. In the Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 98. Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25, regarded Ptychohyla as part of their larger Hyla.

Contained taxa

  • Ptychohyla acrochorda Campbell and Duellman, 2000
  • Ptychohyla dendrophasma (Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000)
  • Ptychohyla erythromma (Taylor, 1937)
  • Ptychohyla euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928)
  • Ptychohyla hypomykter McCranie and Wilson, 1993
  • Ptychohyla legleri (Taylor, 1958)
  • Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei (Ahl, 1934)
  • Ptychohyla macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957)
  • Ptychohyla panchoi Duellman and Campbell, 1982
  • Ptychohyla salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952)
  • Ptychohyla sanctaecrucis Campbell and Smith, 1992
  • Ptychohyla spinipollex (Schmidt, 1936)
  • Ptychohyla zophodes Campbell and Duellman, 2000

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