Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877
Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 92. Type species: Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877, by original designation.
Cauphias Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 129. Replacement name for Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877.
English Names
Spikethumb Frogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 25; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).
Distribution
Highlands of Nuclear Central America, from southern Mexico through the highlands of Guatemala and northern El Salvador to central and northern Honduras; undetermined larvae and subadult from Cerro Saslaya, Nicaragua.
Comment
For review of genus and phylogenetics see Duellman and Campbell, 1992, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 181: 1-31. Wilson, McCranie, and Cruz-Díaz, 1994, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 107: 67-78, discussed the phylogeny of the genus as did Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1045-1048. Keys to, accounts of, and discussions of phylogenetics of the species in Honduras provided by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 285-311. Caldwell, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 28: 1-37, defined and discussed the Hyla bistincta group (now part of Plectrohyla). Toal and Mendelson, 1995, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 174: 1-20, provided a key to the Hyla bistincta group. In the Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89. Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25, considered Plectrohyla to be part of their enlarged Hyla.
Contained taxa
- Plectrohyla acanthodes Duellman and Campbell, 1992
- Plectrohyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002)
- Plectrohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939)
- Plectrohyla avia Stuart, 1952
- Plectrohyla bistincta (Cope, 1877)
- Plectrohyla calthula (Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000)
- Plectrohyla calvicollina (Toal, 1994)
- Plectrohyla celata (Toal and Mendelson, 1995)
- Plectrohyla cembra (Caldwell, 1974)
- Plectrohyla charadricola (Duellman, 1964)
- Plectrohyla chryses (Adler, 1965)
- Plectrohyla chrysopleura Wilson, McCranie, and Cruz-Díaz, 1994
- Plectrohyla crassa (Brocchi, 1877)
- Plectrohyla cyanomma (Caldwell, 1974)
- Plectrohyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
- Plectrohyla dasypus McCranie and Wilson, 1981
- Plectrohyla ephemera (Meik, Canseco-Márquez, Smith, and Campbell, 2005)
- Plectrohyla exquisita McCranie and Wilson, 1998
- Plectrohyla glandulosa (Boulenger, 1883)
- Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877
- Plectrohyla hartwegi Duellman, 1968
- Plectrohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940)
- Plectrohyla ixil Stuart, 1942
- Plectrohyla labedactyla (Mendelson and Toal, 1996)
- Plectrohyla lacertosa Bumzahem and Smith, 1954
- Plectrohyla matudai Hartweg, 1941
- Plectrohyla miahuatlanensis Meik, Smith, Canseco-Márquez, and Campbell, 2006
- Plectrohyla mykter (Adler and Dennis, 1972)
- Plectrohyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942)
- Plectrohyla pentheter (Adler, 1965)
- Plectrohyla pokomchi Duellman and Campbell, 1984
- Plectrohyla psarosema (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
- Plectrohyla psiloderma McCranie and Wilson, 1999
- Plectrohyla pycnochila Rabb, 1959
- Plectrohyla quecchi Stuart, 1942
- Plectrohyla robertsorum (Taylor, 1940)
- Plectrohyla sabrina (Caldwell, 1974)
- Plectrohyla sagorum Hartweg, 1941
- Plectrohyla siopela (Duellman, 1968)
- Plectrohyla tecunumani Duellman and Campbell, 1984
- Plectrohyla teuchestes Duellman and Campbell, 1992
- Plectrohyla thorectes (Adler, 1965)
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