Cruziohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005
Cruziohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 113. Type species: Agalychnis calcarifer Boulenger, 1902, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Caribbean slopes of southeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras, through Costa Rica and Panama to Pacific lowlands of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, below 500 m elevation; Amazonian lowlands in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Amazonas, Brazil, possibly into Bolivia.
Comment
Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 227-261, on the basis of an extensive molecular analysis suggested Cruziohyla to be the sister taxon of all other phyllomedusines with the exception of Phrynomedusa.
Contained taxa
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