Sarcohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Sarcohyla > Species: Sarcohyla arborescandens

Hyla arborescandens Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 388. Holotype: UIMNH 25045 (formerly EHT 3135), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on mountainside about 3 km. southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico.

Hyla forbesi Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 513. Holotype: EHT-HMS 22276, by original designation; now UIMNH 25048 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on a mountain three miles southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380.

Plectrohyla arborescandensFaivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.

Sarcohyla arborescandens — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18. 

English Names

Lesser Bromeliad Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Distribution

Elevations of 1800-3100 m in the Sierra Madre Oriental in San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and western Veracruz, Mexico.

Comment

In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. Formerly in the Hyla miotympanum group of Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380-384, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 919-921. See comment under Plectrohyla cycladaUrbina-Cardona and Loyola, 2008, Tropical Conserv. Sci., 1: 417–445, modeled the distribution. 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: 267. Kaplan and Heimes, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 463-464, reported on the larva and rejected the identification (including that it is a member of Plectrohyla) of the larva associated with this species by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 921. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 55-56, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 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 and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 375–376, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. 

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