Ptychohyla

"Mountain stream frog" redirects here. For the frog that lives in New South Wales, Australia, see Mountain stream tree frog.

Ptychohyla
Ptychohyla salvadorensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Ptychohyla
Taylor, 1944
Species

See text.

Ptychohyla is a genus. It is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are called stream frogs or mountain stream frogs in English. These frogs live in southern Mexico and Central America. They live in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca and all the way south to Panama.

Species

These species are in Ptychohyla:

Binomial name and authorCommon name
P. dendrophasma (Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000)Phantom treefrog
P. euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928)Cloud forest stream frog
P. hypomykter (McCranie and Wilson, 1993)Copan stream frog
P. legleri (Taylor, 1958)Legler's stream frog
P. leonhardschultzei (Ahl, 1934)Schultze's stream frog
P. macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957)Pine forest stream frog
P. salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952)Salvador stream frog
P. zophodes (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)Gloomy Mountain stream frog

References

  1. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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