Teratohyla
| Teratohyla | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Teratohyla spinosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Centrolenidae |
| Subfamily: | Centroleninae |
| Genus: | Teratohyla Taylor, 1951 |
| Type species | |
| Centrolenella spinosa Taylor, 1949 | |
Teratohyla is a small genus of glassfrogs in subfamily Centroleninae. The genus was for a while included in Centrolenella and then Cochranella, but it was resurrected in 2009. These frogs are distributed from lowlands of Central America from Honduras southwards to Pacific and Amazonian wet tropical lowlands of South America.[1]
Species
There are four species in this genus:[1][2]
- Teratohyla amelie (Cisneros-Heredia and Meza-Ramos, 2007)
- Teratohyla midas (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
- Teratohyla pulverata (Peters, 1873)
- Teratohyla spinosa (Taylor, 1949)
References
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Teratohyla Taylor, 1951". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑ "Teratohyla". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
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