Mountain Brook Frogs

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Mountain Brook Frogs
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Duellmanohyla
Campbell et Smith, 1992
Species

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Mountain Brook Frogs (Duellmanohyla) is a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Oaxaca, Mexico. These are mall stream breeding frogs with irises colored bright red, bronze or yellow. The dorsum is uniform pale green, olive, red-brown or lichenose, with green or olive spots on black background. Several species have pale upper labial and lateral stripes. Some fingers or toes have moderate webbing.

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Binomial Name and Author Common Name
Duellmanohyla chamulae (Duellman, 1961) Chamula Mountain Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla ignicolor (Duellman, 1961) Sierra Juarez Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla lythrodes (Savage, 1968) Savage's Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla rufioculis (Taylor, 1952)
Duellmanohyla salvavida (McCranie and Wilson, 1986) Honduran Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla schmidtorum (Stuart, 1954) Schmidt's Mountain Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla soralia (Wilson and McCranie, 1985) Copan Brook Frog
Duellmanohyla uranochroa (Cope, 1875) Costa Rica Brook Frog

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