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Megastomatohyla mixomaculata (Taylor, 1950)

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

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Hyla mixomaculata Taylor, 1950, Copeia, 1950: 274. Holotype: KU 26777, by original designation. Type locality: "Coscomatepec, 5000 feet elevation, Veracruz, Mexico".

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

English Names

Variegated 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

Cossomatepec region in central Veracruz in eastern Mexico, 900-1500 m elevation.

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 417-421, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 930. 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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