Bromeliohyla bromeliacia (Schmidt, 1933)
Hyla bromeliacia Schmidt, 1933, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 19. Holotype: FMNH 4718, by original designation. Type locality: "mountains west of San Pedro [Sula], [Cortés,] Honduras. Altitude 4500 feet."
Hyla bromeliacea — Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 121. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Bromeliohyla bromeliacia — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 99.
English Names
Bromeliad Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 89; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 76; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 94; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 8).
Distribution
Moderate and intermediate elevations (350-1790 m elevation) of the Atlantic slopes of the Maya Mountains of Belize and northern slopes montane central Guatemala and northwestern Honduras; one locality in montane Chiapas on the Atlantic versant, Mexico.
Comment
See (as Hyla bromeliacia) Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 429-434, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 929. See also accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 89-91; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 76-77, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 94-96, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 255-258. Martínez-Coronel and Ramírez-Bautista, 1995, Herpetol. Rev., 26: 104-105, provided the Mexican record. McCranie and Casteñeda, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 321, noted that two of the paratypes of Hyla bromeliacia are "Hyla"melacaena. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 240.
External Links
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For additional sources of information from other sites search Google
- For images search Arkive, CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
- For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
- for a quick link to their maps see iNaturalist KML
