Spikethumb Frogs

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Spikethumb Frogs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hylidae Genus: Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877
Species
See text.

Spikethumb Frogs (Plectrohyla) are a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Central America from southern Mexico through Guatemala, northern El Salvador to central and northern Honduras. A major revision of the Hylidae family moved an additional 21 species to this genus from the Hyla genus [1].

[edit] Species

• Plectrohyla acanthodes Duellman and Campbell, 1992.
• Plectrohyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén et al., 2002).
• Plectrohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939).
• Plectrohyla avia Stuart, 1952.
• Plectrohyla bistincta (Cope, 1877).
• Plectrohyla calthula (Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000).
• Plectrohyla calvicollina (Toal, 1994).
• Plectrohyla celata (Toal and Mendelson, 1995).
• Plectrohyla cembra (Caldwell, 1974).
• Plectrohyla charadricola (Duellman, 1964).
• Plectrohyla chryses (Adler, 1965).
• Plectrohyla chrysopleura Wilson, McCranie and Cruz-Díaz, 1994.
• Plectrohyla crassa (Brocchi, 1877).
• Plectrohyla cyanomma (Caldwell, 1974).
• Plectrohyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000).
• Plectrohyla dasypus McCranie and Wilson, 1981.
• Plectrohyla ephemera (Meik, Canseco-Márquez, Smith and Campbell, 2005).
• Plectrohyla exquisita McCranie and Wilson, 1998.
• Plectrohyla glandulosa (Boulenger, 1883).
• Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877.
• Plectrohyla hartwegi Duellman, 1968.
• Plectrohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940).
• Plectrohyla ixil Stuart, 1942.
• Plectrohyla labedactyla (Mendelson and Toal, 1996).
• Plectrohyla lacertosa Bumzahem and Smith, 1954.
• Plectrohyla matudai Hartweg, 1941.
• Plectrohyla miahuatlanensis Meik, Smith, Canseco-Marquez et al., 2006.
• Plectrohyla mykter (Adler and Dennis, 1972).
• Plectrohyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942).
• Plectrohyla pentheter (Adler, 1965).
• Plectrohyla pokomchi Duellman and Campbell, 1984.
• Plectrohyla psarosema (Campbell and Duellman, 2000).
• Plectrohyla psiloderma McCranie and Wilson, 1999.
• Plectrohyla pycnochila Rabb, 1959.
• Plectrohyla quecchi Stuart, 1942.
• Plectrohyla robertsorum (Taylor, 1940).
• Plectrohyla sabrina (Caldwell, 1974).
• Plectrohyla sagorum Hartweg, 1941.
• Plectrohyla siopela (Duellman, 1968).
• Plectrohyla tecunumani Duellman and Campbell, 1984.
• Plectrohyla teuchestes Duellman and Campbell, 1992.
• Plectrohyla thorectes (Adler, 1965).