Duellmanohyla

Duellmanohyla
Duellmanohyla uranochroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Duellmanohyla
Campbell & Smith , 1992
Species

8 species (see text)

Duellmanohyla is a genus of frogs (mountain brook frogs) in the Hylidae family found in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as Central America.[1] These are small stream-breeding frogs have bright red, bronze or yellow irises. Their dorsa are uniform pale green, olive, red-brown or lichenose, with green or olive spots on a black background. Several species have pale upper labial and lateral stripes. Some fingers or toes have moderate webbing.

Species

The genus contains eight species:[1]

Binomial name and author Common name
D. chamulae (Duellman, 1961) Chamula mountain brook frog
D. ignicolor (Duellman, 1961) Sierra Juarez brook frog
D. lythrodes (Savage, 1968) Savage's brook frog
D. rufioculis (Taylor, 1952) Rufous-eyed brook frog
D. salvavida (McCranie and Wilson, 1986) Honduran brook frog
D. schmidtorum (Stuart, 1954) Schmidt's mountain brook frog
D. soralia (Wilson and McCranie, 1985) Copan brook frog
D. uranochroa (Cope, 1875) Costa Rica brook frog

References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2015). "Duellmanohyla Campbell and Smith, 1992". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 17 December 2015.


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