Sarcohyla floresi

species of amphibian

Sarcohyla floresi is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it between 1461 and 2000 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Sarcohyla floresi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. floresi
Binomial name
Sarcohyla floresi
(Kaplan, Heimes, and Aguilar, 2020)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002)
  • Plectrohyla ameibothalame (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla ameibothalame (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

The tadpoles swim in streams. The adult frogs have a dark stripe down each side of their bodies. There is white color around the stripe.[4]

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Sarcohyla floresi". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Sarcohyla floresi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T174249091A174252236. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T174249091A174252236.en. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Frost, Darrel R. "Sarcohyla floresi (Kaplan, Heimes, and Aguilar, 2020)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  4. Moises Kaplan; Peter Heimes; Rafael Aguilar (February 26, 2020). "A new species of Sarcohyla (Anura: Hylidae: Hylini) from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero and Estado de México, México". Zootaxa. 4743 (3): 382–390. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4743.3.5. PMID 32230324. S2CID 212938763.