Sarcohyla cyclada

The tan-edged tree frog (Sarcohyla cyclada) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it in cloud forests between 1600 and 2180 meters above sea level, in pine and oak forests at 2370 and 2670 meters above sea level, and in cloud forest and oak and madroño forests between 2121 and 2568 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Sarcohyla cyclada
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. cyclada
Binomial name
Sarcohyla cyclada
(Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
  • Plectrohyla cyclada (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla cyclada (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

This frog changes color. At night, the skin on its back is a very light brown and yellow-brown toward its rear end. During the day, its skin is brown with green marks and green-brown toward its rear end. It has webbing on all four feet, more on the back feet than on the front feet.[1]

Herpetologist Duellman says this frog is related to frogs in the Hyla miotympanum group.[1]

References
  1. Raul E. Diaz (June 4, 2004). "Sarcohyla cyclada". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Tan-edged Treefrog: Sarcohyla cyclada". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T55460A53954602. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55460A53954602.en. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  3. "Sarcohyla hapsa (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
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