Agalychnis

genus of amphibians

Agalychnis is a genus of tree frogs that live in forests in Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America. Scientists have also called them Pachymedusa. They are also called leaf frogs, rough leaf frogs, Mexican giant tree frogs, middle American multicolored tree frogs, and Mexican leaf frogs.[1]

Agalychnis
Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Agalychnis
Cope, 1864
Type species
Agalychnis callidryas
Synonyms
  • Agalychnis (Cope, 1864)
  • Pachymedusa (Duellman, 1968)

These frogs live on the Pacific (western) side of the mountains in Mexico. They also live in Colombia, Ecuador, the Venezuela, and Peru.[1]

Taxonomy

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Scientists put these species in Agalychnis:

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

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Agalychnis Cope, 1864". Amphibian Species of the World 6.1, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved February 13, 2022.

Other websites

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