Spikethumb Frogs

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Spikethumb Frogs

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877

Species

See text.

Spikethumb Frogs (Plectrohyla) are a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family, and are found in Central America from southern Mexico through Guatemala, northern El Salvador to central and northern Honduras. A major revision of the Hylidae family moved an additional 21 species to this genus from the Hyla genus [1].

[edit] Species

Plectrohyla acanthodes Duellman and Campbell, 1992.
Plectrohyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén et al., 2002).
Plectrohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939).
Plectrohyla avia Stuart, 1952.
Plectrohyla bistincta (Cope, 1877).
Plectrohyla calthula (Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid, and Campbell, 2000).
Plectrohyla calvicollina (Toal, 1994).
Plectrohyla celata (Toal and Mendelson, 1995).
Plectrohyla cembra (Caldwell, 1974).
Plectrohyla charadricola (Duellman, 1964).
Plectrohyla chryses (Adler, 1965).
Plectrohyla chrysopleura Wilson, McCranie and Cruz-Díaz, 1994.
Plectrohyla crassa (Brocchi, 1877).
Plectrohyla cyanomma (Caldwell, 1974).
Plectrohyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000).
Plectrohyla dasypus McCranie and Wilson, 1981.
Plectrohyla ephemera (Meik, Canseco-Márquez, Smith and Campbell, 2005).
Plectrohyla exquisita McCranie and Wilson, 1998.
Plectrohyla glandulosa (Boulenger, 1883).
Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877.
Plectrohyla hartwegi Duellman, 1968.
Plectrohyla hazelae (Taylor, 1940).
Plectrohyla ixil Stuart, 1942.
Plectrohyla labedactyla (Mendelson and Toal, 1996).
Plectrohyla lacertosa Bumzahem and Smith, 1954.
Plectrohyla matudai Hartweg, 1941.
Plectrohyla miahuatlanensis Meik, Smith, Canseco-Marquez et al., 2006.
Plectrohyla mykter (Adler and Dennis, 1972).
Plectrohyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942).
Plectrohyla pentheter (Adler, 1965).
Plectrohyla pokomchi Duellman and Campbell, 1984.
Plectrohyla psarosema (Campbell and Duellman, 2000).
Plectrohyla psiloderma McCranie and Wilson, 1999.
Plectrohyla pycnochila Rabb, 1959.
Plectrohyla quecchi Stuart, 1942.
Plectrohyla robertsorum (Taylor, 1940).
Plectrohyla sabrina (Caldwell, 1974).
Plectrohyla sagorum Hartweg, 1941.
Plectrohyla siopela (Duellman, 1968).
Plectrohyla tecunumani Duellman and Campbell, 1984.
Plectrohyla teuchestes Duellman and Campbell, 1992.
Plectrohyla thorectes (Adler, 1965).