Spikethumb frogs | |
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Plectrohyla dasypus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Anura |
Family: | Hylidae |
Genus: | Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877 |
Species | |
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Spikethumb frogs (Plectrohyla) are a genus (group of species) of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in Central America. They live as far north as southern Mexico through Guatemala and northern El Salvador to central and northern Honduras. The last time scientists reexamined the family Hylidae, they moved 21 species into this genus from Hyla.[1] They are called spikethumb because of the spike on their thumbs. The spike is called a prepollex. The name "Plectrohyla" comes from the Greek word plēktron, which means "spur,"[2] and hyla, the name of the group in which many of its frogs used to be.
The following species are in the genus Plectrohyla:
Binomial name and author | Common name |
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Plectrohyla acanthodes (Duellman and Campbell, 1992) | Thorny spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla avia (Stuart, 1952) | Greater spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla calvata (McCranie, 2017) | |
Plectrohyla chrysopleura (Wilson, McCranie & Cruz-Díaz, 1994) | |
Plectrohyla dasypus (McCranie & Wilson, 1981) | Honduras spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla exquisita (McCranie & Wilson, 1998) | |
Plectrohyla glandulosa (Boulenger, 1883) | Forest spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla guatemalensis (Brocchi, 1877) | Guatemala spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla hartwegi (Duellman, 1968) | Hartweg's spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940) | Hazel's tree frog |
Plectrohyla ixil (Stuart, 1942) | Ixil spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla lacertosa (Bumzahem & Smith, 1954) | Pop-eyed spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla matudai (Hartweg, 1941) | Matuda's spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla pokomchi (Duellman & Campbell, 1984) | Rio Sananja spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla psiloderma (McCranie & Wilson, 1999) | |
Plectrohyla pycnochila (Rabb, 1959) | Thick-lipped spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla quecchi (Stuart, 1942) | Las Palmas spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla sagorum (Hartweg, 1941) | Arcane spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla tecunumani (Duellman & Campbell, 1984) | Cave spikethumb frog |
Plectrohyla teuchestes (Duellman & Campbell, 1992) | Alta Verapaz spikethumb frog |