Mexican burrowing tree frog
Genus of frogs in the family Hylidae from the Americas
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The Mexican burrowing tree frog (Smilisca), also known as the cross-banded tree frog, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae, the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla were included in this genus.[1] Its name is from the Ancient Greek smiliskos (‘little knife’), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.[2]
Species
| Binomial name and author | Common name |
|---|---|
| S. baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) | common Mexican tree frog |
| S. cyanosticta (Smith, 1953) | blue-spotted Mexican tree frog |
| S. dentata (Smith, 1957) | upland burrowing tree frog |
| S. fodiens (Boulenger, 1882) | lowland burrowing tree frog |
| S. manisorum (Taylor, 1954) | masked tree frog |
| S. phaeota (Cope, 1862) | New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog |
| S. puma (Cope, 1885) | Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog |
| S. sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966 | Panama cross-banded tree frog |
| S. sordida (Peters, 1863) | Veragua cross-banded tree frog |
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