Exerodonta chimalapa (Mendelson and Campbell, 1994)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Exerodonta > Species: Exerodonta chimalapa

Hyla chimalapa Mendelson and Campbell, 1994, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 107: 399. Holotype: UTA A-13365, by original designation. Type locality: "Colonia Rodulfo Figueroa, 19 km NW Rizo de Oro (Chiapas), 1542 m, Oaxaca, Mexico".

Exerodonta chimalapaFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101.

English Names

Chimalapa Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 13).

Distribution

Highlands (853–1542 m elevation) in the Chimalapas region of southeastern Oaxaca and adjacent western Chiapas, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla sumichrasti group according to the original publication. In the Exerodonta sumichrasti group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101. See account by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 932–934. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 246. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 227–229, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Exerodonta in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 227–229, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Exerodonta in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 6, noted that the sequence divergence of this species from Exerodonta smaragdina and Exerodonta xera is substantially less than 1%, suggesting that the morphological distinctions of the species need to be reevaluated. 

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