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