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Plectrohyla mykter (Adler and Dennis, 1972)

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

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Hyla mykter Adler and Dennis, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 7: 8. Holotype: KU 137553, by original designation. Type locality: "11.4 km (by road) southwest of Puerto del Gallo, Guerrero, México (about 35 km airline northeast of Atoyác de Álvarez, elevation 1985 meters".

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

English Names

Keelsnout Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Keel-snouted Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).

Distribution

A few localities in cloud forest at elevations of 1985 to 2520 m in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero, Mexico.

Comment

In the Hyla bistincta group according to the original publication. See Mendelson and Toal, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 329-331, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 961-963, for accounts. 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: 272.

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