Biology:Tepuihyla
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Short description: Genus of amphibians
| Tepuihyla | |
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| Tepuihyla talbergae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Lophyohylinae |
| Genus: | Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris & Gorzula, 1993[1] |
| Diversity | |
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Tepuihyla, commonly known as Amazon tree frogs or Tepui tree frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in mountains of eastern and south-eastern Venezuela and Guyana, and likely in adjacent Brazil.[2] A tepui is a table-top mountain characteristic of the Guiana Highlands.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Tepuihyla:[2]
| Binomial name and author | Common name |
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| T. aecii (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993) | Monte Duida tree frog |
| T. edelcae (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993) | Ayarzaguena's tree frog |
| T. exophthalma (Smith and Noonan, 2001) | |
| T. luteolabris (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993) | |
| T. obscura (Kok, Ratz, Tegelaar, Aubret, and Means, 2015) | |
| T. rodriguezi (Rivero, 1968) | Rodriguez's Amazon tree frog |
| T. shushupe (Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016) | |
| T. tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) | Canelos treefrog |
| T. warreni (Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992) |
References
- ↑ Ayarzagüena, J., J.C. Señaris y S. Gorzula (1992) Un nuevo genero para las especies del "grupo Osteocephalus rodriguezi" (Anura: ylidae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle. 52(138): 213-221
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Tepuihyla. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
External links
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Tepuihyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 25, 2008).
- eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Tepuihyla at http://www.eol.org.
- ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Tepuihyla at https://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 25, 2008).
- GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Tepuihyla at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm
Wikidata ☰ Q2669308 entry
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