Mexican burrowing tree frog
| Smilisca | |
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| Smilisca phaeota | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Smilisca Cope, 1865 |
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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.
Scientists studying Hylidae recently decided that two species from Pternohyla were really Smilisca.[1] The name "smilisca" is from the Ancient Greek smiliskos for "little knife." The Mexican burrowing tree frogs are called Smilisca because they have pointed frontoparietal processes.[2]
Species
[change | change source]| 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
[change | change source]- ↑ 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).
