Charadrahyla nephila (Mendelson and Campbell, 1999)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Charadrahyla > Species: Charadrahyla nephila

Hyla nephila Mendelson and Campbell, 1999, J. Herpetol., 33: 80. Holotype: UTA A-5769, by original designation. Type locality: "5.8 km W Totontepec, Sierra Mixe, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2103 m (17° 13′ N, 96° 03′ W)".

Charadrahyla nephilaFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

English Names

Oaxacan Cloud-forest Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Distribution

Cloud forest of the northern Oaxacan Highlands (Sierra de Juárez and Sierra Mixe), Mexico, 680-2256 m elevation; dubious record from the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz.

Comment

Confused with Hyla chaneque previous to its description. See account (as Hyla nephila) by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 937-939. 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: 241.

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