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Plectrohyla calvicollina (Toal, 1994)

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

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Hyla calvicollina Toal, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 188. Holotype: KU 186356, by original designation. Type locality: "4 km N Cerro Pelón, Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, México, 2518 m (17° 30′ N, 96° 30′ W)".

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

English Names

Cerro Pelón Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Distribution

Known only from two localities at elevations of 2519 and 2712 m on the northern slope of Cerro Pelón in the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico, in cloud forest.

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: 957-959. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 268.

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