Sarcohyla labedactyla (Mendelson and Toal, 1996)

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

Hyla labedactyla Mendelson and Toal, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 327. Holotype: CAS 142596, by original designation. Type locality: "0.8 mi N San Vicente Lachixio, 7700 feet (= ca. 2346 m), Distrito Sola de Vega, Oaxaca, Mexico".

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

Sarcohyla labedactyla — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18. Provisional assignment. 

Common Names

Grasping Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality at 2200 m in arid pine-oak forest, Sierra Madre del Sur, in south-central Oaxaca, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla bistincta group according to the original publication. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. See account by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 959-960.

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