Cruziohyla

Cruziohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Phyllomedusidae. They live in Honduras in Central America down to the Amazon Basin in South America.[2] Scientists first decided to put frogs in this genus in 2005 when they were reexamining the way they organized frogs in the Hylidae. Cruziohyla was fully reviewed in 2018. The species in this genus were in Agalychnis and Phyllomedusa before.[2]

Cruziohyla
Cruziohyla calcarifer.jpg
Cruziohyla sylviae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Cruziohyla
Faivovich et al., 2005[1]
Diversity
3 species (see text)

These frogs have a lot of webbing on their front and back feet. Their eyes have two colors in their irises. Tadpoles grow in water-filled holes in fallen trees.[1] The name Cruziohyla is for the Brazilian amphibian scientist Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz.[1]

Species

There are three Cruziohyla species:[2][3][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Cruziohyla 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 7 July 2014.
  3. "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  4. Gray, Andrew R. (2018). "Review of the genus Cruziohyla (Anura: Phyllomedusidae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4450 (4): 401–426. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.1. PMID 30313830. S2CID 52976498.

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