Biology:Agalychnis

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Short description: Genus of amphibians

Agalychnis
Agalychnis callidryas.jpg
Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae
Genus: Agalychnis
Cope, 1864
Type species
Agalychnis callidryas
(Cope, 1862)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pachymedusa Duellman, 1968

Agalychnis is a genus of tree frogs native to forests in Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.[1]

Taxonomy

The following species are recognised in the genus Agalychnis:[1]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Golden-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis annae).jpg Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963) Blue-sided leaf frog Costa Rica and Panama
Agalychnis buckleyi.jpg Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) Warty leaf frog Colombia and Ecuador
Red eyed tree frog edit2.jpg Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862) Red-eyed tree frog Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia
Agalychnis Dacnicolor.jpg Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864) Mexican leaf frog Mexico
Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988) Antioquia leaf frog Colombia
Agalychnis hulli.jpg Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995) North-eastern Peru, possibly in nearby Ecuador
Agalychnis lemur.jpg Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882) Lemur leaf frog Costa Rica, Panama and northern Colombia
Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962) Rancho Grande leaf frog Venezuela
Agalychnis moreletii03.jpg Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853) Morelet's tree frog Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
Agalychnis psilopygion.jpg Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980) Flecked tree frog Southern Colombia and north-western Ecuador
Misfit leaf frog.jpg Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955 Misfit leaf frog northeastern Honduras through Nicaragua to east-central Costa Rica
Agalychnis spurrelli.jpg Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913 Gliding leaf frog Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama
Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957 Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico
Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid, and Daza-R., 2013 Colombia

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frost, Darrel R.. "Agalychnis Cope, 1864". American Museum of Natural History, New York. https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Phyllomedusidae/Agalychnis. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2347644 entry