Plectrohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939)
Hyla arborescandens Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 388. Holotype: UIMNH 25045 (formerly EHT 3135), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on mountainside about 3 km. southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico.
Hyla forbesi Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 513. Holotype: EHT-HMS 22276, by original designation; now UIMNH 25048 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on a mountain three miles southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380.
Plectrohyla arborescandens — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.
English Names
Lesser Bromeliad 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: 19).
Distribution
Elevations of 1800-3100 m in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Puebla, Tlaxcala, and western Veracruz, Mexico.
Comment
In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. Formerly in the Hyla miotympanum group of Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380-384, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 919-921. See comment under Plectrohyla cyclada. 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: 267. Kaplan and Heimes, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 463-464, reported on the larva and rejected the identification (including that it is a member of Plectrohyla) of the larva associated with this species by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 921.
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