Biology:Tlalocohyla

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Tlalocohyla
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Tlalocohyla loquax
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Tlalocohyla
Species

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Tlalocohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae,[1][2] also known as rain treefrogs or Middle American yellow-bellied treefrogs. They occur in Middle America between Mexico and Costa Rica.[1] This genus was created in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae. The five species in this genus were previously placed in the genus Hyla.[3]

Species

There are five recognized species:[1][2][4]

Binomial name and author Common name
T. godmani (Günther, 1901) Godman's tree frog
T. loquax (Gaige and Stuart, 1934) mahogany tree frog
T. picta (Günther, 1901) painted tree frog
T. smithii (Boulenger, 1902) dwarf Mexican tree frog
T. celeste (Varela-Soto, 2022) Tapir Valley tree frog

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Tlalocohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005". 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/Tlalocohyla. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Hylidae.shtml. 
  3. Faivovich, Julián; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Garcia, Paulo C.A.; Frost, Darrel R.; Campbell, Jonathan A.; Wheeler, Ward C. (2005). "Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 294: 1–240. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF2.0.CO;2]. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/462. 
  4. Varela-Soto, Donald; Abarca, Juan G.; Brenes-Mora, Esteban; Aspinall, Valeria; Leenders, Twan; Shepack, Alex (2022-08-31). "A new species of brilliant green frog of the genus Tlalocohyla (Anura, Hylidae) hiding between two volcanoes of northern Costa Rica". Zootaxa 5178 (6): 501–531. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5178.6.1. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5178.6.1. 

External links

  • AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: Tlalocohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.


Wikidata ☰ Q2697568 entry