Dryophytes eximius (Baird, 1854)

Common Names

Mountain Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 14).

Distribution

South-central Durango and the Sierra Madre Oriental in Tamaulipas south through montane Nayarit and Zacatecas to the Transverse Volcanic Range of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Mexico, Morelos, Distrito Federal, Puebla, Hidalgo, Queretaro, and Veracruz, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla eximia group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102; this confirmed by  Li, Wang, Nian, Litvinchuk, Wang, Li, Rao, and Klaus, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 87: 80–90, who also provided evidence for cryptic species within this complex. For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 499–505 (in the sense of including Hyla wrightorum), and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 985–987. See comments under Hyla wrightorum. Painter, 1986, Herpetol. Rev., 17: 26, provided the first record for Colima. Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista, and Casas-Andreu, 1999, Cuad. Inst. Biol., UNAM, 32: 29–32, provided an account. Eliosa León, 2002, Bol. Soc. Herpetol. Mexicana, 10: 59–60, reported on geographic variation; see comments under Hyla arboricola and Hyla wrightorum. Reyes-Velasco, Hermosillo-López, Grünwald, and Avila-López, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 117–120, provided a record for Colima, Mexico. Korky and Webb, 1991, Bull. New Jersey Acad. Sci., 36: 7–12, compared the larval morphology of Hyla eximia, Hyla euphorbiacea, and Hyla plicata. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 53–54, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Valdes-Lares, Martín-Muñoz de Cote, and Muñiz-Martínez, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 648, provided new records for Durango, Mexico, and discussed the overlap in that state with Hyla wrightorum. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2015, Check List, 11(1642): 1–11, noted the occurrence of the species in Hidalgo, Mexico, without providing a specific locality. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 68–69, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 373–374, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Quezada-Hipólito, Smith, Suazo-Ortuño, Alvarado-Díaz, González, Thammachoti, and Smart, 2019, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 90(e902448): 1–15, commented on the impact of vulcanism in the Trans-Volcanic belt of Mexico on biogeography Ahumada-Carrillo, Grünwald, López Cuellar, and Jones, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 277–278, reported the species from the municipality of Mesquitic, northern Jalisco, Mexico. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico. Loc-Barragán, Smith, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 30, reported on the distributional and conservation status in the state of Nayarit, Mexico.  

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