Sarcohyla cembra (Caldwell, 1974)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Sarcohyla > Species: Sarcohyla cembra

Hyla cembra Caldwell, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 28: 16. Holotype: KU 137035, by original designation. Type locality: "a mountain stream at Campamento Río Molino, 33.8 km (by road) N Candelaria Loxicha, 2160 m, in tropical deciduous forest in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Distrito de Pochutla, Oaxaca, México".

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

Sarcohyla cembra — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18. Provisional placement.

English Names

Southern Sierra Madre Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Distribution

Known from the type locality at 2160 m on the Pacific slopes of the Sierra Madre del Sur, Distrito de Pochutla, Oaxaca, and 7.5 km southeast of Llano de Guadelupe, Oaxaca, 2850 m, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla bistincta group according to the original publication. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. See account by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 968-971. See Mendelson and Canseco-Márquez, 2002, Southwest. Nat., 47: 459-461, for collection localities and comparison with Hyla mykter. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 268. Caviedes-Solis, Vázquez-Vega, Solano-Zavaleta, Pérez-Ramos, Rovito, Devitt, Heimes, Flores-Villela, Campbell, and Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2015, Mesoam. Herpetol., 2: 230–241, reported the species from 7.5 km southeast of Llano de Guadalupe, Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2015 after not being seen for 10 years or more and having been reported as possibly extinct in the wild.

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