Mexican Treefrogs

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Mexican Treefrogs
Smilisca phaeota cyanosticta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hylidae Genus: Smilisca Cope, 1865
Species
See text.

Mexican Treefrogs or Smiliscas (Smilisca) are frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae family the two species of the genus Pternohyla was included into this genus [1].

[edit] Species

• Smilisca baudinii (Duméril et Bibron, 1841).
• Smilisca cyanosticta (Smith, 1953).
• Smilisca dentata (Smith, 1957).
• Smilisca fodiens (Boulenger, 1882).
• Smilisca phaeota (Cope, 1862).
• Smilisca puma (Cope, 1885).
• Smilisca sila (Duellman et Trueb, 1966).
• Smilisca sordida (Peters, 1863).