Plectrohyla calthula (Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid and Campbell, 2000)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hyla calthula Ustach, Mendelson, McDiarmid and Campbell, 2000
Conservation Status
Last record: 8 April 1978 or later
Rediscovered on 21 September 2001
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Oaxaca, México
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ustach, P.C., Mendelson, J.R. III, McDiarmid, R.W. and Campbell, J.A. (2000). A new species of Hyla (Anura: Hylidae) from the Sierra Mixes, Oaxaca, Mexico, with comments on ontogenetic variation in the tadpoles. Herpetologica [2000]: 239-250.
Other references:
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.
Duellman, W. E. (2001). The Hylid Frogs of Middle America. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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.
Lamoreux, J. F., McKnight, M. W., and R. Cabrera Hernandez. (2015). Amphibian Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xxiv + 320pp.
Meik, J. M., Canseco-Márquez, L., Smith, E. N., and J. A. Campbell. 2005. A new species of Hyla (Anura: Hylidae) from Cerro Las Flores, Oaxaca, Mexico. Zootaxa 1046: 17-27.
Georgina Santos-Barrera, Joseph Mendelson III. (2006). Plectrohyla calthula. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 02 June 2015.