Sarcohyla mykter (Adler and Dennis, 1972)

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

Hyla mykter Adler and Dennis, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 7: 8. Holotype: KU 137553, by original designation. Type locality: "11.4 km (by road) southwest of Puerto del Gallo, Guerrero, México (about 35 km airline northeast of Atoyác de Álvarez, elevation 1985 meters".

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

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

Common Names

Keelsnout Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

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

Distribution

A few localities in cloud forest at elevations of 1985 to 2520 m in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Guerrero, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Hyla bistincta group according to the original publication. See Mendelson and Toal, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 329-331, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 961-963, for accounts. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. 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: 272.

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