Smilisca cyanosticta (Smith, 1953)
Hyla phaeota cyanosticta Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 8: 150. Holotype: USNM 111147, by original designation. Type locality: "Piedras Negras, Petén, Guatemala".
Smilisca phaeota cyanosticta — Stuart, 1963, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 122: 42.
Smilisca cyanosticta — Duellman and Cole, 1965, Syst. Zool., 14: 141.
Hyla cyanosticta — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25. by implication.
English Names
Blue-spotted Mexican Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 28; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 114; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 23).
Blue-spotted Treefrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 87).
Blue-spotted Smilisca (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 69).
Distribution
Atlantic slopes of southeastern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala from Jalapa de Díaz (Mexico) to the Montañas del Mico (Guatemala), 300-1200 m elevation.
Comment
See accounts by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 60: 1-2, Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 598-603, Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 995-996, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 110-112, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 87-89, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 114-116. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 617.
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