Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla chaneque Duellman, 1961, Herpetologica, 17: 1. Holotype: KU 58439, by original designation. Type locality: "stream above (6.2 kilometers by road south of) Rayón Mescalapa, Chiapas, Mexico, (elevation 1690 meters)".

Hyla duellmani Lynch and Smith, 1966, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 69: 60. Holotype: UIMNH 56821, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Madre north of Zanatepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 5,000 feet". Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 440.

Charadrahyla chaneque — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

English Names

Fairy Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Distribution

Restricted to two areas of high-elevation cloud-forest east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico: the Chimalapas Range and the Selva Negra area on the Atlantic versant of the the Chiapas Highlands.

Comment

See accounts (as Hyla chaneque) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 440-445; Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 939-941. Discussed and revised by Mendelson and Campbell, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 80-86. See Charadrahyla nephila. 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.

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• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
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• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
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