Plectrohyla lacertosa Bumzahem and Smith, 1954
Plectrohyla lacertosa Bumzahem and Smith, 1954, Herpetologica, 10: 64. Holotype: UIMNH 33693, by original designation. Type locality: "Region del Soconusco", Chiapas, Mexico.
Hyla lacertosa — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25. by implication.
English Names
Pop-eyed Spikethumb Frog (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: 20).
Distribution
Known only from two localities in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico, the type locality and Cerro Tres Picos, 2134 m.
Comment
See accounts by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 577-578, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1056-1058. In the Plectrohyla guatemalensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. 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: 272.
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