Mexican burrowing tree frog

The Mexican burrowing tree frog (Smilisca), also known as the cross-banded tree frog, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae, the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla were included in this genus.[1] Its name is from the Ancient Greek smiliskos (‘little knife’), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.[2]

Smilisca
Smilisca phaeota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Smilisca
Cope, 1865
Species

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Species

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Binomial name and author Common name
S. baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) common Mexican tree frog
S. cyanosticta (Smith, 1953) blue-spotted Mexican tree frog
S. dentata (Smith, 1957) upland burrowing tree frog
S. fodiens (Boulenger, 1882) lowland burrowing tree frog
S. manisorum (Taylor, 1954) masked tree frog
S. phaeota (Cope, 1862) New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog
S. puma (Cope, 1885) Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog
S. sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966 Panama cross-banded tree frog
S. sordida (Peters, 1863) Veragua cross-banded tree frog

References

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  1. ^ Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Garcia, P.C.A.; Frost, D.R.; Campbell, J.A.; Wheeler, W.C., 2005: Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, with Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Num. 294, pp.1-240. [1]
  2. ^ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.
  • Duellman, W.E. (1993): Amphibian species of the world – Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1–372]
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