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Plectrohyla charadricola (Duellman, 1964)

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

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Hyla charadricola Duellman, 1964, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 478. Holotype: KU 58414, by original designation. Type locality: "Río Totolapa, 14.4 kilometers by road west of Huachinango, Puebla, Mexico, elevation 2280 meters".

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

English Names

Puebla 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

Pine forest in the high mountains (2000-2300 m elevation) of Hidalgo and Puebla in eastern Mexico.

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 466-468, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 953-954. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. 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: 268.

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