Megastomatohyla nubicola (Duellman, 1964)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Megastomatohyla > Species: Megastomatohyla nubicola

Hyla nubicola Duellman, 1964 "1963", Herpetologica, 19: 225. Holotype: UMMZ 118160, by original designation. Type locality: "stream 3 kilometers southwest of Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico (elevation 1,325 meters)".

Megastomatohyla nubicolaFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 104.

English Names

Cloud Forest Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 17).

Distribution

Mountains of central Veracruz in the vicinity of Huatusco, in eastern Mexico at ca. 1325 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 423-425. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 263.

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