Sarcohyla bistincta

species of amphibian

The Mexican fringe-limbed tree frog or Cope's streamside tree frog (Sarcohyla bistincta) is a frog that lives in Mexico. It lives near fast-flowing streams and rivers, but it also lives in forests where the trees are pine and oak and in cloud forests. Scientists have seen it between 1219 and 2900 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Sarcohyla bistincta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. bistincta
Binomial name
Sarcohyla bistincta
(Cope, 1877)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla bistincta (Cope, 1887)
  • Hyla bistincta bistincta (Shannon, 1951)
  • Plectrohyla bistincta (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla bistincta (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
This frog has different colors.

This frog's tadpoles swim in streams.[2]

This frog is not in danger of dying out now, but scientists think it could bee if human beings cut down too many trees to make farms and get wood to build with. They think the fungal disease chytridiomycosis might also kill this frog, but they have not found any sick frogs yet. Scientists have seen this frog on one ranch. They think this frog might be able to live in places that human beings have changed.[2]

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Sarcohyla bistincta". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 4, 2021.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Mexican Fringe-limbed Treefrog: Sarcohyla bistincta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T151284870A53952901. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T151284870A53952901.en. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Sarcohyla bistincta (Cope, 1877)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 4, 2021.