Sarcohyla ameibothalame

The Mixteca Alta tree frog (Sarcohyla ameibothalame) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it in only two places: a pine and oak forest between 2455 and 2670 meters above sea level in the Sierra Mixes in Oaxaca.[3][1]

Sarcohyla ameibothalame
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. ameibothalame
Binomial name
Sarcohyla ameibothalame
(Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002)
  • Plectrohyla ameibothalame (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla ameibothalame (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

This frog is brown in color on the back, with white spots. The adult male frog is 3.1 cm long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is 3.7 cm long. The adult male frog has very muscular front legs.[1]

References
  1. "Sarcohyla ameibothalame". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Grasping Treefrog: Sarcohyla ameibothalame". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T55387A53952438. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55387A53952438.en. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  3. "Sarcohyla ameibothalame (Canseco-Márquez, Mendelson, and Gutiérrez-Mayén, 2002)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
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