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Sarcohyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942)
Hyla pachyderma Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 308. Holotype: USNM 115029, by original designation. Type locality: "Pan de Olla, south of Tezuitlán [in Puebla], Veracruz, México".
Plectrohyla pachyderma — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.
Sarcohyla pachyderma — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18. Provisional assignment.
English Names
Semiaquatic Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality near Tezuitlán, 1600 m, on the Atlantic slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in central Veracruz, Mexico.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: Mexico
Endemic: Mexico
Comment
See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 473-475, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 976, where he noted that despite effort the species has not been recollected since the types. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 273.
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