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Plectrohyla calthula (Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000)

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

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Hyla calthula Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 239. Holotype: UTA A-5885, by original designation. Type locality: "Mexico: Oaxaca: Sierra Mixes, Totontepec".

Plectrohyla calthula — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.

English Names

Yellow-robed Treefrog (; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Distribution

Cloud forest on the Atlantic versant of the Sierra Mixes of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1360-1896 m elevation.

Comment

In the Hyla bistincta group according to the original publication. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. See account by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 964-966. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 267.

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