Sarcohyla psarosema (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)

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

Hyla psarosema Campbell and Duellman, 2000, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 16: 11. Holotype: UTA A-5782, by original designation. Type locality: "3.6 mi (5.8 km) W (by road) Totontepec (17° 14′ 24″ N, 96° 03′ 36″ W, 2103 m), Sierra Mixes, Oaxaca, Mexico".

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

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

Common Names

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

Distribution

Known only from the type locality at 2103 m elevation in cloud forest in the Sierra Mixes, 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: 971-973. 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: 273.

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