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Sarcohyla thorectes Adler, 1965

Adler's mottled treefrog

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hyla thorectes Adler, 1965; Plectrohyla thorectes Adler, 1965

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1984

Rediscovered in 2007

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Mexico

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Adler, K. (1965). Three new frogs of the genus Hyla from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Mexico. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. 642: 1-19.

 

Other references:

Baena, M. L., G. Halffter, A. Lira-Noriega, and J. Soberón. 2008. Extinción de especies. Pp. 263–282 In J. Soberón, G. Halffter, and J. Llorente-Bousquets (Eds.), Capital Natural de México. Primera Parte. Conocimiento Actual de la Biodiversidad. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, México, D.F., Mexico.

Caviedes-Solis, I. W., L. F. Vázquez-Vega, I. Solano-Zavaleta, E. Pérez-Ramos, S. M. Rovito, T. J. Devitt, P. Heimes, O. A. Flores-Villela, J. A. Campbell, and A. Nieto Montes de Oca. (2015). Everything is not lost: recent records, rediscoveries, and range extensions of Mexican hylid frogs. Mesoamerican Herpetology 2: 230-241.

Delia, Jesse R. J., Whitney, Jonathan L. and Burkhardt, Timothy. (2013). Rediscovery of ‘lost’ treefrogs from the Oaxacan highlands of Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0481-9. [Abstract]

Faivovich, Julián, Haddad, Célio F. B., Garcia, Paulo C. O., Frost, Darrel R., Campbell, Jonathan A. and Wheeler, Ward C. (2005). Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 294: 1-240, 16 figures, 2 tables, 5 appendices.

Frías-Alvarez, P., J. Zúñiga-Vega, and O. Flores-Villela. 2010. A general assessment of the conservation status and decline trends of Mexican amphibians. Biodiversity Conservation 19: 3699-3742.

Köhler, Gunther et al. (2016). A survey of tadpoles and adult anurans in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Amphibia: Anura). Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(3): 639-660.

Lips, K.R., Mendelson III, J.R., Munoz-Alonso, A., Canseco-Marquez, L. and Mulcahy, D.G. (2004). [url=http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/phtm/PHTM/frogs/papers/lips-2004.pdf]Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities[/url]. Biological Conservation 119: 555-564.

Georgina Santos-Barrera, Luis Canseco-Márquez. (2004). Plectrohyla thorectes. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 February 2013.

 

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