Mexican Treefrogs

Mexican Treefrogs
Masked Tree Frog, Smilisca phaeota
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Hylinae
Genus:	Smilisca Cope, 1865
Species
See text.

Mexican Treefrogs or Smiliscas (Smilisca) are frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae family the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla was included into this genus.^[1]

Species

Binomial Name and Author	Common Name
Smilisca baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)	Common Mexican Treefrog
Smilisca cyanosticta (Smith, 1953)	Blue-spotted Mexican Treefrog
Smilisca dentata (Smith, 1957)	Upland Burrowing Treefrog
Smilisca fodiens (Boulenger, 1882)	Lowland Burrowing Treefrog
Smilisca phaeota (Cope, 1862)	New Granada Cross-banded Treefrog
Smilisca puma (Cope, 1885)	Nicaragua Cross-banded Treefrog
Smilisca sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966	Panama Cross-banded Treefrog
Smilisca sordida (Peters, 1863)	Veragua Cross-banded Treefrog

References

1. ^ Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.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, Num. 294, pp.1-240. [1]

• Duellman, W.E. (1993): Amphibian species of the world - Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1-372]

External links

• Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Smilisca. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 23, 2008).
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Smilisca. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 23, 2008).
• eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Smilisca at http://www.eol.org.
• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Smilisca at http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 22, 2008).
• GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Smilisca at http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

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