Teratohyla Taylor, 1951
Teratohyla Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 35. Type species: Centrolenella spinosa Taylor, 1949, by original designation.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Lowlands of Central America from northeastern Honduras south and in the Pacific and Amazonian wet tropical lowlands of South America below 1000 m; a seemingly isolated population in French Guiana; presumably in intervening Amazonian Colombia and Brazil.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Cochranella by Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 37, where it had been placed by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Previously it had been included within Centrolenella by Savage, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 325.
Contained taxa
- Teratohyla amelie (Cisneros-Heredia and Meza-Ramos, 2007)
- Teratohyla midas (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Teratohyla pulverata (Peters, 1873)
- Teratohyla spinosa (Taylor, 1949)
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