Blue-spotted Mexican tree frog

The blue-spotted Mexican tree frog, blue-spotted tree frog or blue-spotted smilisca (Smilisca cyanosticta) is a frog that lives in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Scientists have seen it as high as 1200 meters above sea level.[1][3]

Blue-spotted Mexican tree frog
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Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Smilisca
Species:
S. cyanosticta
Binomial name
Smilisca cyanosticta
(Smith, 1953)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla phaeota cyanosticta (Smith, 1953)
  • Smilisca phaeota cyanosticta (Stuart, 1963)
  • Smilisca cyanosticta (Duellman and Cole, 1965)
  • Hyla cyanosticta (Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 'Smilisca cyanosticta'Amphibiaweb. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. Lowland Burrowing Treefrog: Smilisca cyanosticta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010 (2020). p. e.T56007A53962660. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T56007A53962660.en. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 'Smilisca cyanosticta (Smith, 1953). Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online ReferenceAmerican Museum of Natural History. Retrieved February 14, 2021.

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