Teratohyla

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Teratohyla
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Teratohyla spinosa
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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 the 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 five species in this genus: [1]

The AmphibiaWeb, however, places Teratohyla adenocheira in the genus Cochranella . [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "'Teratohyla Taylor, 1951". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. "Centrolenidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2017.