Mexican burrowing tree frog
The Mexican burrowing tree frog or cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca) is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America.
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| Smilisca phaeota | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Smilisca Cope, 1865 |
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Scientists studying Hylidae recently decided that two species from Pternohyla were really Smilisca.[1] The name "smilisca" is from the Ancient Greek <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">smiliskos for "little knife." The Mexican burrowing tree frogs are called Smilisca because they have pointed frontoparietal processes.[2]
Species
| Binomial name and author | Common name |
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| S. baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) | Common Mexican tree frog |
| S. cyanosticta (Smith, 1953) | Blue-spotted Mexican tree frog |
| S. dentata (Smith, 1957) | Upland burrowing tree frog |
| S. fodiens (Boulenger, 1882) | Lowland burrowing tree frog |
| S. manisorum (Taylor, 1954) | Masked tree frog |
| S. phaeota (Cope, 1862) | New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog |
| S. puma (Cope, 1885) | Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog |
| S. sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966 | Panama cross-banded tree frog |
| S. sordida (Peters, 1863) | Veragua cross-banded tree frog |
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Dodd, C. Kenneth (2013). Frogs of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4214-0633-6.
- Duellman, W.E. (1993): Amphibian species of the world – Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1–372]
Other websites
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Wikispecies has information on: Smiliscas. |
- Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Smilisca. Electronic Database accessible at https://web.archive.org/web/20071024033938/http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Smilisca. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).