Quilticohyla zoque

species of amphibian

The Zoque tree frog (Quilticohyla zoque) is a frog. It lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it between 76 and 600 meters above sea level in evergreen tropical forests.[2][3][1]

Quilticohyla zoque
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Quilticohyla
Species:
Q. zoque
Binomial name
Quilticohyla zoque
(Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Luría-Manzano, Pineda-Arredondo, and Caviedes-Solis, 2017)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ptychohyla zoque Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Luría-Manzano, Pineda-Arredondo, and Caviedes-Solis, 2017
  • Quilticohyla zoque Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018

The iris of the frog's eye is pale pink in color.[4]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Zoque Treefrog: Quilticohyla zoque". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. p. e.T125183226A125183752. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T125183226A125183752.en. 125183226.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Quilticohyla acrochorda (Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Luría-Manzano, Pineda-Arredondo, and Caviedes-Solis, 2017)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  3. "Ptychohyla zoque Canseco-Márquez, Aguilar-López, Luría-Manzano, Pineda-Arredondo, and Caviedes-Solis, 2017". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
  4. Canseco-Márquez L; Aguilar-López JL; Luría-Manzano R; Pineda-Arredondo E; Caviedes-Solis IW (2017). "A new species of treefrog of the genus Ptychohyla (Anura: Hylidae) from southern Mexico". Zootaxa (Abstract). 4317 (2): 279–290. Retrieved October 4, 2023.