Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879
Exerodonta Brocchi, 1879, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 3: 20. Type species: Exerodonta sumichrasti Brocchi, 1879, by monotypy.
English Names
Highlands Treefrogs (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 13).
Distribution
South-central Mexico; eastern Guatemala and southwestern Honduras.
Comment
In Hylini and resurrected from the synonymy of Hyla by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100 (for the former Hyla sumichrasti group and part of the former Hyla miotympanum group), where Exerodonta had been placed by by implication of Duellman and Hoyt, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 414-417 (synonymy of Exerodonta with Hyla), and explicitly by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 93. Formerly considered a synonym of Hylella by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 419.
Contained taxa
- Exerodonta abdivita (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
- Exerodonta bivocata (Duellman and Hoyt, 1961)
- Exerodonta catracha (Porras and Wilson, 1987)
- Exerodonta chimalapa (Mendelson and Campbell, 1994)
- Exerodonta juanitae (Snyder, 1972)
- Exerodonta melanomma (Taylor, 1940)
- Exerodonta perkinsi (Campbell and Brodie, 1992)
- Exerodonta pinorum (Taylor, 1937)
- Exerodonta smaragdina (Taylor, 1940)
- Exerodonta sumichrasti Brocchi, 1879
- Exerodonta xera (Mendelson and Campbell, 1994)
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