Tlalocohyla

Tlalocohyla
Tlalocohyla loquax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Hylinae
Genus:	Tlalocohyla Faivovich  [ fr ], Haddad  [ fr ], Garcia  [ fr ], Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler  [ fr ], 2005 [1]
Species
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Tlalocohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae, ^{[2] [3]} also known as rain treefrogs or Middle American yellow-bellied treefrogs. They occur in Middle America between Mexico and Costa Rica. ^[2] 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 . ^[1]

Species

There are five recognized species: ^{[2] [3] [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. 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. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.470.2967 . doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/462.
2. 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. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
3. "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
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. PMID   36095713.

External links

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