Atlantihyla
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| Atlantihyla | |
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| Atlantihyla spinipollex | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Atlantihyla Faivovich et al., 2018[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hyla spinipollex K. P. Schmidt, 1936 | |
| Species | |
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3 species (see text) | |
Atlantihyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae.[2][3] It is endemic to Central America, specifically to Honduras and Guatemala.[2] The generic name refers to its distribution on the Atlantic side of the isthmus (from Atlantis+hyla).[1] The members of the genus are known as stream frogs.
The genus was established based on molecular data in a revision of the subfamily Hylinae by Julián Faivovich and colleagues in 2018. In order to obtain a monophyletic Ptychohyla, Faivovich and colleagues moved two former Ptychohyla species to Atlantihyla and four former Ptychohyla species to Quilticohyla. Atlantihyla has a sister group relationship to a poorly-supported clade that includes Bromeliohyla, Duellmanohyla, and Quilticohyla.[1] A third Atlantihyla species was described in 2020.[4]