Ecnomiohyla
| Fringe-limbed treefrogs | |
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| Ecnomiohyla rabborum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | "Amphibia" (wide sense) |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Ecnomiohyla Faivovich, et al., 2005 |
| Type species | |
| Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, 1886 | |
| Species | |
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Ecnomiohyla, commonly known as fringe-limbed treefrogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. This genus was erected in 2005 following a major revision of Hylidae. The ten original species in this genus (E. rabborum and E. sukia were a later discoveries) were previously placed in the genus Hyla. The generic name Ecnomiohyla comes from Greek ecnomios ("marvelous" or "unusual") and Hylas, the companion of Hercules.[1][2][3]
Members of Ecnomiohyla are moderately-sized to very large frogs with distinctive scalloped fringes of skin on the outer edges of their limbs and relatively immense hands and feet. They are found in the canopies of wet forested highlands of southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia.[4] They are capable of gliding using their webbed hands and feet.[5]
The genus currently includes twelve species, though several authors have proposed that E. tuberculosa may not belong to the genus.[1][4]
| Binomial Name and Author | Common Name |
|---|---|
| Ecnomiohyla echinata (Duellman, 1961) | Oaxacan fringe-limbed treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra (Taylor, 1948) | Heredia treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla miliaria (Cope, 1886) | Cope's brown treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla minera (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) | Guatemala treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla miotympanum (Cope, 1863) | Small-eared treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla phantasmagoria (Dunn, 1943) | |
| Ecnomiohyla rabborum Mendelson, Savage, Griffith, Ross, Kubicki, and Gagliardo, 2008 | Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla salvaje (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) | Copan treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla sukia Savage & Kubicki, 2010 | |
| Ecnomiohyla thysanota (Duellman, 1966) | Cerro Mali treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) | Canelos treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla valancifer (Firschein and Smith, 1956) | San Martin fringe-limbed treefrog |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joseph R. Mendelson III, Jay M. Savage, Edgardo Griffith, Heidi Ross, Brian Kubicki, & Ronald Gagliardo (2008). "Spectacular new gliding species of Ecnomiohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Central Panama". Journal of Herpetology 42 (4): 750–759. doi:10.1670/08-025R1.1.
- ↑ Julián Favovich, Célio F.B. Haddad, Paulo C.A. Garcia, Darrel R. Frost, Jonathan A. Campbell, & Ward C. Wheeler (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 (294): 1–240. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Charles W. Myers & Richard B. Stothers (2006). "The myth of Hylas revisited: the frog name Hyla and other commentary on Specimen medicum (1768) of J. N. Laurenti, the "father of herpetology"". Archives of Natural History 33: 241–266. doi:10.3366/anh.2006.33.2.241.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jay M. Savage & Brian Kubicki (2010). "A new species of fringe-limb frog, genus Ecnomiohyla (Anura: Hylidae), from the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica, Central America". Zootaxa 2719: 21–34.
- ↑ Robert W. Hansen, ed. (2008). "About our cover: Ecnomiohyla rabborum". Herpetological Review 42 (1): 3.
External links
- Frost, Darrel R. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Ecnomiohyla. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Ecnomiohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).