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Plectrohyla catracha (Porras and Wilson, 1987)
Hyla catracha Porras and Wilson, 1987, Copeia, 1987: 478. Holotype: KU 197336, by original designation. Type locality: "Zacate Blanco (14° 20′ N, 88° 15′ W), a village located 14 km WNW of La Esperanza, 2020 m, Sierra de Opalaca, Departamento de Intibucá, Honduras".
Exerodonta catracha — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101.
Plectrohyla catracha — Chaves-Acuña, Boza-Oviedo, Zúniga, Vásquez-Almazán, Chaves, Bolaños, McCranie, and Faivovich, 2024, Am. Mus. Novit., 4016: 16.
Common Names
Zacate Blanco Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).
Distribution
Hardwood cloud-forests in the cordilleras Opalaca and Montecillos and the Montaña La Sierra on both sides of the continental divide in southwestern Honduras, at elevations of 1800–2160 m; likely extends into El Salvador
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Honduras
Endemic: Honduras
Comment
In the Hyla pinorum group, most similar to Hyla melanomma, according to the original publication. In the Hyla miotympanum group of Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 917–919, who provided an account. See also McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 258–262, who noted that previous records from El Salvador are from a formerly disputed region, now under Honduran sovereignty. In Exerodonta, but unnassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 101. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 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. 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, discussed the tentative nature of the assignment of this species to Exerodonta. Transferred to Plectrohyla by Chaves-Acuña, Boza-Oviedo, Zúniga, Vásquez-Almazán, Chaves, Bolaños, McCranie, and Faivovich, 2024, Am. Mus. Novit., 4016: 1–17, on molecular phylogenetic grounds.
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