Ecnomiohyla
| Fringe-limbed treefrogs | |
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| Ecnomiohyla rabborum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hylidae |
| Subfamily: | Hylinae |
| Genus: | Ecnomiohyla Faivovich et al., 2005[1] |
| Type species | |
| Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, 1886
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Ecnomiohyla, commonly known as fringe-limbed treefrogs or marvelous frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae.[2] This genus was erected in 2005 following a major revision of Hylidae. The ten original species in this genus (E. rabborum and E. sukia are later discoveries) were previously placed in the genus Hyla. The generic name Ecnomiohyla comes from Greek ecnomios ("marvelous" or "unusual") and Hylas, the companion of Hercules.[1][3][4]
Description
Members of Ecnomiohyla are moderately sized to very large frogs with distinctive scalloped fringes of skin on the outer edges of their limbs and relatively immense hands and feet. They are found in the canopies of wet forested highlands of southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia.[5] They are capable of gliding using their webbed hands and feet.[6]
Species
The genus currently includes 12 species,[2] though several authors have proposed that E. tuberculosa may not belong to the genus.[3][5]
| Binomial name and author | Common name |
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| Ecnomiohyla echinata (Duellman, 1961) | Oaxacan fringe-limbed treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra (Taylor, 1948) | Heredia treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla miliaria (Cope, 1886) | Cope's brown treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla minera (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) | Guatemala treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla miotympanum (Cope, 1863) | Small-eared treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla phantasmagoria (Dunn, 1943) | |
| Ecnomiohyla rabborum Mendelson, Savage, Griffith, Ross, Kubicki, and Gagliardo, 2008 | Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla salvaje (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985) | Copan treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla sukia Savage & Kubicki, 2010 | |
| Ecnomiohyla thysanota (Duellman, 1966) | Cerro Mali treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) | Canelos treefrog |
| Ecnomiohyla valancifer (Firschein and Smith, 1956) | San Martin fringe-limbed treefrog |
See also
References
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External links
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Ecnomiohyla. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: Apr 21, 2008).
