Myersiohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae.[1] It was erected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae and initially included four species that were previously placed in the genus Hyla.[2] The genus is found in the tepui region of Guyana and Venezuela.[1]
| Myersiohyla | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Tribe: | Cophomantini |
| Genus: | Myersiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005 |
| Type species | |
| Hyla inparquesi Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994 "1993"
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| Diversity | |
| Six species (see text) | |
Species
editThere are six species in this genus:[1]
- Myersiohyla aromatica (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994)
- Myersiohyla chamaeleo (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013)
- Myersiohyla inparquesi (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994)
- Myersiohyla liliae (Kok, 2006)
- Myersiohyla loveridgei (Rivero, 1961)
- Myersiohyla neblinaria (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013)
References
edit- ^ a b c Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Myersiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ Julián Faivovich; Célio F.B. Haddad; Paulo C.A. Garcia; Darrel R. Frost; Jonathan A. Campbell & Ward C. Wheeler (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. 294: 1–240. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.470.2967. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/462. S2CID 83925199.
Further reading
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