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Sarcohyla labeculata (Shannon, 1951)
Hyla bistincta labeculata Shannon, 1951, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 101: 470. Holotype: USNM 123689, by original designation. Type locality: "San Lucas Camotlán, Oaxaca", Mexico.
Hyla calthula Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 239. Holotype: UTA A-5885, by original designation. Type locality: "Mexico: Oaxaca: Sierra Mixes, Totontepec". Synonymy by Campbell, Brodie, Caviedes-Solis, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Luja, Flores-Villela, García-Vázquez, Sarker, and Wostl, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 373.
Plectrohyla calthula — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.
Hyla ephemera Meik, Canseco-Márquez, Smith, and Campbell, 2005, Zootaxa, 1046: 20. Holotype: MZFC 17049, by original designation. Type locality: "between Santa Maria Guienagati and Lachidola, 1100 m, (16.759° N 95.461° W), north slope of Cerro Las Flores, Oaxaca, Mexico". Synonymy by Campbell, Brodie, Caviedes-Solis, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Luja, Flores-Villela, García-Vázquez, Sarker, and Wostl, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 373.
Plectrohyla ephemera — Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson, and García-Padilla, 2015, Mesoam. Herpetol., 2: 17.
Sarcohyla calthula — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18.
Sarcohyla ephemera — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18.
Sarcohyla labeculata — Campbell, Brodie, Caviedes-Solis, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Luja, Flores-Villela, García-Vázquez, Sarker, and Wostl, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 373.
English Names
Mixe Streamside Treefrog (Campbell, Brodie, Caviedes-Solis, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Luja, Flores-Villela, García-Vázquez, Sarker, and Wostl, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 373).
Yellow-robed Treefrog (Sarcohyla calthulua, no longer recognized: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).
Cerro Las Flores Spikethumb Frog (Sarcohyla ephemera, no longer recognized: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).
Distribution
The Sierra Mixe in the north-central Oaxacan highlands where it is known from along small streams and seeps in cloud forest and secondary growth near the village of Totontepec at 1780–1896 m, and also west of the village of Zacatepec (17.190° N, 95.987° W) at an elevation of 1360 m; an isolated population occurs on Cerro Las Flores, an uplift somewhat isolated from the rest of the Sierra Mixe and about 90 km southeast of Totontepec, where it has been taken in cloud forest at 1100–1220 m.
Comment
Resurrected from the synonymy of Sarcohyla bistincta by Campbell, Brodie, Caviedes-Solis, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Luja, Flores-Villela, García-Vázquez, Sarker, and Wostl, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 373, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1964, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 475. See accounts as Hyla calthula by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 964-966. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status as Plectrohyla calthula and Plectorhyla ephemera in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 267, 270.
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