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Ptychohyla

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Ptychohyla is a genus of frogs (common names: stream frogs, mountain stream frogs) in the family Hylidae. These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAmphibia
  4. OrderAnura
  5. FamilyHylidae
Observations recorded2,998

Herpetologie Ptychohyla is een geslacht van kikkers uit de familie boomkikkers (Hylidae).[1] De groep werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Edward Harrison Taylor in 1944. De naam Ptychohyla betekent vrij vertaald 'vouwende boomkikker'; ptycho = vouwen en Hyla = boomkikker.[bron?] Er zijn dertien soorten die voorkomen in delen van Midden-Amerika en leven in de landen Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua en Panama.[2] Soorten Geslacht Ptychohyla Soort Ptychohyla acrochorda Soort Ptychohyla dendrophasma Soort Ptychohyla erythromma Soort Ptychohyla euthysanota Soort Ptychohyla hypomykter Soort Ptychohyla legleri Soort Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei Soort Ptychohyla macrotympanum Soort Ptychohyla panchoi Soort Ptychohyla salvadorensis Soort Ptychohyla sanctaecrucis Soort Ptychohyla spinipollex Soort Ptychohyla zophodes Referenties ↑ Darrel R. Frost - Amphibian Species of the World: an online reference - Version 6.0 - American Museum of Natural History, Ptychohyla. ↑ University of California - AmphibiaWeb, Ptychohyla. Bronnen (en) - Darrel R. Frost - Amphibian Species of the World: an online reference - Version 6.0 - American Museum of Natural His

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
32
Family
Hylidae
Collections
MVZ, UWBM, CAS, UMMZ, UTA, KU
Recorded in
Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras

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Parent taxon
Hylinae
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Ptychohyla is a genus of frogs (common names: stream frogs, mountain stream frogs) in the family Hylidae. These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.

Ptychohyla has a pale pink iris and nuptial outgrowth in breeding males that differentiates this new species from other Mexican frog groups. This new species usually live in untouched tropical forest. They are known to be vulnerable in modified habitat by humans.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ptychohyla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.