Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Hyla thorectes Adler, 1965, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 642: 10. Holotype: UMMZ 125390, by original designation. Type locality: "about 37 km N of San Gabriel Mixtepec (about 100 km airline SSW of Oaxaca de Juárez), Oaxaca, 1700 m", Mexico.

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

English Names

Adler's Mottled Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).

Distribution

Several streams at elevations of 1530-1900 m on the southern slopes of the Sierra Madre del Sur in Oaxaca and from about 2500 m in Guerrero, Mexico.

Comment

See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 388-391, who considered it to be a member of the Hyla hazelae group; transferred into the Hyla pictipes group by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 886-887, who provided an account. In the Plectrohyla bistincta 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: 276.

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