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Ptychohyla hypomykter McCranie and Wilson, 1993
Ptychohyla hypomykter McCranie and Wilson, 1993, Southwest. Nat., 38: 101. Holotype: USNM 319918, by original designation. Type locality: "beside the Quebrada Cañon Oscuro (15° 05′ N, 88° 56′ W), 1150-1170 m elevation, a stream on Montaña Cerro Azul below Quebrada Grande, Departamento de Copán, Honduras".
Hyla hypomykter — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25, by implication.
English Names
Copan Stream Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).
Distribution
Cloud forest at elevations of 340–2070 m on the Atlantic versant from west-central Guatemala to north-central Nicaragua, exclusive of the Cordillera Nombre de Dios of north-central Honduras, possibly into El Salvador.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Comment
Until McCranie and Wilson, 1993, Southwest. Nat., 38: 100–104, sorted out the confusion surrounding types, this species was confused with Ptychohyla spinipollex. In the Ptychohyla euthysanota group according to the original publication. See accounts by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1026–1027, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 311–316, and noted the possibility of additional species under this name. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 277. Lovich, Akre, Ryan, Nunez, Ford, Cruz-Díaz, Borjas, Scott, Flores, Del Cid, Flores, Rodriguez, and Luque-Montes, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 112–116, provided a new record for Honduas and commented on the range. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 256–261, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Ptychohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Gonzalez-Mollinedo and Marmól-Acatán, 2019, Herpetol. Rev., 50: 98, provided new records for Guatemala and discussed the range. Townsend, Herrera-B., Hofmann, Luque-Montes, Ross, Dudek, Krygeris, Duchamp, and Wilson, 2020, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 70: 735, provided a dot map.
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