Mountain Brook Frogs

Mountain Brook Frogs
Mountain Brook Frogs
Duellmanohyla uranochroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Duellmanohyla
Campbell & Smith , 1992
Species

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Mountain Brook Frogs (Duellmanohyla) is a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Oaxaca, Mexico. These are small stream breeding frogs with irises colored bright red, bronze or yellow. The dorsum is uniform pale green, olive, red-brown or lichenose, with green or olive spots on black background. Several species have pale upper labial and lateral stripes. Some fingers or toes have moderate webbing.

Species

Binomial Name and Author Common Name
Duellmanohyla chamulae (Duellman, 1961) Chamula Mountain Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla ignicolor (Duellman, 1961) Sierra Juarez Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla lythrodes (Savage, 1968) Savage's Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla rufioculis (Taylor, 1952)
Duellmanohyla salvavida (McCranie and Wilson, 1986) Honduran Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla schmidtorum (Stuart, 1954) Schmidt's Mountain Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla soralia (Wilson and McCranie, 1985) Copan Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla uranochroa (Cope, 1875) Costa Rica Brook Frog

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