Hyla

Taxobox
name = "Hyla"

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = European tree frog, "Hyla arborea"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Anura
familia = Hylidae
subfamilia = Hylinae
genus = "Hyla"
genus_authority = Laurenti, 1768
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

The genus "Hyla" is one of approximately 38 genera in the New World family of tree frogs (Hylidae). The word "Hyla" translates to "tree," and tree frogs are indeed arboreal. They have a very broad distribution; species can be found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and across the Americas.

There were more than 300 described species in this genus, but after a major revision of the Hylidae family most of these have been moved to new genera so the genus now only contains 33 species". [aut|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. (http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/462/1/B294.pdf)]

pecies

"Hyla" group

Faivovich et al. could not assign these species to a current genus, so they allocated these species to the non-taxon "Hyla". Further work is needed to organize them.

References

External links

*. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October, 2007). [http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/names.php?taxon=&family=&subfamily=&genus=Hyla&commname=&authority=&year=&geo=0&dist=&comment= "Hyla"] . Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
* [web application] . 2008. Berkeley, California: [http://amphibiaweb.org/cgi-bin/amphib_query?query_src=aw_lists_genera_&table=amphib&where-genus=Hyla&where-species= "Hyla"] . AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
* taxon [http://www.eol.org/search?q=Hyla&search_
] at http://www.eol.org.