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Ptychohyla acrochorda Campbell and Duellman, 2000

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

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Ptychohyla acrochorda Campbell and Duellman, 2000, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 16: 15. Holotype: UTA A-13197, by original designation. Type locality: "11.6 km S Valle Nacional (Puente Dañado), Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, 750 m (17° 43′ 12″ N, 96° 18′ 36″ W)".

Hyla acrochorda — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25. by implication.

English Names

Warty Mountain Stream Frog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 21).

Distribution

Known only from mesic forest at elevations of 594-900 m on the Atlantic slopes of the Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Comment

Previously confused with Ptychohyla erythromma of Guerrero, Mexico, according to the original publication. See account by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1011-1012.

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