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Hyloscirtus

Hyloscirtus is a genus of frogs. They are Neotropical frogs. They are in the family Hylidae.[1] Scientists stopped using this genus fora time, but they started again in 2005 after they looked at the Hylidae family again.[2] They decided to put these species in the same genus because of their DNA: They all have the same 56 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. Of these species, 28 species had been in Hyla before 2005. These frogs have fringed skin on the toes of their front and back feet.[2]

Hyloscirtus
Hyloscirtus palmeri.jpg
Hyloscirtus palmeri
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Hyloscirtus
Peters, 1882
Type species
Hylonomus bogotensis
Peters, 1882
Species

37 species (see text)

Synonyms[1]
  • Hylonomus Peters, 1882 – homonym of Hylonomus Dawson, 1860
  • Colomascirtus Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016

Most of these frogs live in the hills and mountains in the Andes mountain range. They live as far south as Bolivia and as far north as Venezuela. A few species live in places near the Andes that are not hills are mountains. These places are called páramo. Two species (H. colymba and H. palmeri) live in Panama and Costa Rica. They live near streams where they lay their eggs. Some of the species in this genus are dying out. This is because humans change the places where they live, because of pollution, because humans brought new animals that eat the same food, because humans brought trout, whuch eat them, and because the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis makes them sick.[3]

The first frogs in Hyloscirtus existed 51 million years ago.[4]

Species

There are 37 species in this genus:[1]

* Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus (Boulenger, 1882)

AmphibiaWeb also lists Hyloscirtus estevesi as its own species[6] but the Amphibian Species of World[1] following Barrio-Amorós and colleagues (2019) says it is the same frog as Hyloscirtus jahni.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Faivovich, Julián; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Garcia, Paulo C.A.; Frost, Darrel R.; Campbell, Jonathan A. & Wheeler, Ward 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. 294: 1–240. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/462. S2CID 83925199.
  3. ↑ Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani and Young, editors (2008). Threatened Amphibians of the World, pp. 249–252. ISBN 978-84-96553-41-5
  4. ↑ Coloma LA, Carvajal-Endara S, Duenas JF, Paredes-Recalde A, Morales-Mite M, Almeida-Reinoso D, Tapia EE, Hutter CR, Toral E, Guaysamin JM (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of stream treefrogs of the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group (Anura: Hylidae) and description of two new species from Ecuador". Zootaxa (Abstract). 3364: 1–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3364.1.1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Coloma, Luis A; et al. (2012). "Molecular phylogenetics of stream treefrogs of the Hyloscirtus larinopygion group (Anura: Hylidae), and description of two new species from Ecuador". Zootaxa. 3364: 1–78. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3364.1.1.
  6. ↑ "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  7. ↑ Barrio-Amorós, C. L.; Rojas-Runjaic, F. J. M. & Señaris, J. C. (2019). "Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation" (PDF). Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. 13 (1): 1–198. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-08-01.


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