Agalychnis is a genus of tree frogs that live in forests in Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America. Scientists have also called them Pachymedusa. They are also called leaf frogs, rough leaf frogs, Mexican giant tree frogs, middle American multicolored tree frogs, and Mexican leaf frogs.[1]
| Agalychnis | |
|---|---|
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| Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Phyllomedusidae |
| Genus: | Agalychnis Cope, 1864 |
| Type species | |
| Agalychnis callidryas | |
| Synonyms | |
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These frogs live on the Pacific (western) side of the mountains in Mexico. They also live in Colombia, Ecuador, the Venezuela, and Peru.[1]
Taxonomy
Scientists put these species in Agalychnis:
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Home |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963) | Blue-sided leaf frog | Costa Rica and Panama |
 | Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) | Warty leaf frog | Colombia and Ecuador |
 | Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862) | Red-eyed tree frog | Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia |
 | Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864) | Mexican leaf frog | Mexico |
| Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988) | Antioquia leaf frog | Colombia | |
| Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995) | North-eastern Peru, possibly in nearby Ecuador | ||
 | Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882) | Lemur leaf frog | Costa Rica, Panama and northern Colombia |
| Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962) | Rancho Grande leaf frog | Venezuela | |
 | Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853) | Morelet's tree frog | Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico |
| Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980) | Flecked tree frog | Southern Colombia and north-western Ecuador | |
 | Agalychnis saltator (Taylor, 1955) | Misfit leaf frog | northeastern Honduras through Nicaragua to east-central Costa Rica |
 | Agalychnis spurrelli (Boulenger, 1913) | Gliding leaf frog | Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama |
| Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957 | Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico | ||
| Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid, and Daza-R., 2013 | Colombia | ||
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