Exerodonta bivocata (Duellman and Hoyt, 1961)

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

Hyla bivocata Duellman and Hoyt, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 414. Holotype: KU 58446, by original designation. Type locality: "a small stream above (6.2 kilometers by road south of) Rayón Mescalapa, Chiapas, México, elevation 1690 meters".

Hyla bivocata oaxacae Lynch In Smith, Langebartel, and Williams, 1964, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 32: 33. Nomen nudum.

Hyla melanomma bivocataDuellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 272.

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

English Names

Chiapan Highlands Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 13).

Distribution

Atlantic slopes of extreme southwestern Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in southern Mexico, 1500 to 2100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Placed in the Hyla pinorum group and elevated from subspecies status under Hyla melanomma by Campbell and Duellman, 2000, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 16: 8, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 272. See account (as Hyla melanomma bivocata) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 402-403. In the Hyla miotympanum group of Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 915-917, who provided an account. In Exerodonta, but unnassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101. 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. Ríos-Rodas, Zenteno-Ruiz, Barragán-Vazquez, Canseco-Márquez, and López Luna, 2019, Check List, 15: 1161–1166, provided a record for extreme southwestern Tabasco, Mexico, near the borders of Veracruz and Chiapas. 

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