Plectrohyla

Lua error: expandTemplate: template "Children rank" does not exist.

Spikethumb frogs (Plectrohyla) are a genus (group of species) of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in Central America. They live as far north as southern Mexico through Guatemala and northern El Salvador to central and northern Honduras. The last time scientists reexamined the family Hylidae, they moved 21 species into this genus from Hyla.[1] They are called spikethumb because of the spike on their thumbs. The spike is called a prepollex. The name "Plectrohyla" comes from the Greek word plēktron, which means "spur,"[2] and hyla, the name of the group in which many of its frogs used to be.

Species

The following species are in the genus Plectrohyla:

Binomial name and author Common name
Plectrohyla acanthodes (Duellman and Campbell, 1992) Thorny spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla avia (Stuart, 1952) Greater spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla calvata (McCranie, 2017)
Plectrohyla chrysopleura (Wilson, McCranie & Cruz-Díaz, 1994)
Plectrohyla dasypus (McCranie & Wilson, 1981) Honduras spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla exquisita (McCranie & Wilson, 1998)
Plectrohyla glandulosa (Boulenger, 1883) Forest spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla guatemalensis (Brocchi, 1877) Guatemala spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla hartwegi (Duellman, 1968) Hartweg's spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940) Hazel's tree frog
Plectrohyla ixil (Stuart, 1942) Ixil spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla lacertosa (Bumzahem & Smith, 1954) Pop-eyed spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla matudai (Hartweg, 1941) Matuda's spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla pokomchi (Duellman & Campbell, 1984) Rio Sananja spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla psiloderma (McCranie & Wilson, 1999)
Plectrohyla pycnochila (Rabb, 1959) Thick-lipped spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla quecchi (Stuart, 1942) Las Palmas spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla sagorum (Hartweg, 1941) Arcane spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla tecunumani (Duellman & Campbell, 1984) Cave spikethumb frog
Plectrohyla teuchestes (Duellman & Campbell, 1992) Alta Verapaz spikethumb frog

References

  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] Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Borror, Donald J. (1988). Dictionary of word roots and combining forms : compiled from the Greek, Latin, and other languages, with special reference to biological terms and scientific names (11. print. ed.). Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub. Co. ISBN 0874840538.

Other websites