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Ptychohyla is a genus. It is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are called stream frogs or mountain stream frogs in English.[1][2] These frogs live in southern Mexico and Central America. They live in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca and all the way south to Panama.[1]
Ptychohyla | |
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Ptychohyla salvadorensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Subfamily: | Hylinae |
Genus: | Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944 |
Species | |
See text. |
These species are in Ptychohyla:[1]
Binomial name and author | Common name |
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P. dendrophasma (Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000) | Phantom treefrog |
P. euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928) | Cloud forest stream frog |
P. hypomykter (McCranie and Wilson, 1993) | Copan stream frog |
P. legleri (Taylor, 1958) | Legler's stream frog |
P. leonhardschultzei (Ahl, 1934) | Schultze's stream frog |
P. macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957) | Pine forest stream frog |
P. salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952) | Salvador stream frog |
P. zophodes (Campbell and Duellman, 2000) | Gloomy Mountain stream frog |
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