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Megastomatohyla mixe (Duellman, 1965)

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

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Hyla mixe Duellman, 1965, Herpetologica, 21: 32. Holotype: KU 87110, by original designation. Type locality: "a stream 4.2 kilometers by road south of Campamento Vista Hermosa, (near latitude 17° 50′ N and longitude 96° 20′ W), at an elevation of 1,800 meters on the northern slope of Sierra de Juárez, Distrito de Ixtlán, Oaxaca, México".

Megastomatohyla mixe — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 104.

English Names

Mixe Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 17).

Distribution

Elevations of 1590-1800 m in the Sierra Juárez and Sierra Madre del Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 425-427. 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: 262.

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