Sarcohyla hazelae

Hazel's tree frog, (Sarcohyla hazelae) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it in pine-oak forests, in cloud forests, and in other mountain forests.[3][1] People have seen it between 1,461 and 2,128 meters above sea level.[2]

Sarcohyla hazelae
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. hazelae
Binomial name
Sarcohyla hazelae
(Taylor, 1940)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940)
  • Plectrohyla hazelae (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla hazelae (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

This frog is in some danger of dying out. The fungal disease chytridiomycosis can kill this frog. Human beings change the places where the frog lives to get wood to build with. People also drain away the water in its streams.[2]

This frog lays eggs in mountain streams.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Sarcohyla hazelae". AmphibiaWeb. Amphibiaweb. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Template:Cite IUCN
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Sarcohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.