YELLOW-BELLIED TREEFROG
Charadrahyla altipotens – Duellman 1968
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The genus Charadrahyla contains all of the former members of the Hyla taeniopus species group; it is defined by Faivovich et al. (2005).
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I have spent one night in the range of this species, and was unsuccessful in locating any individuals.
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REFERENCES:
Adler, K. and D. M. Dennis. 1972. New tree frogs of the Genus Hyla from the cloud forests of western Guerrero, México. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 7:1-19.
Duellman, W.E. 2001. The Hylid Frogs of Middle America. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Ithaca, New York, USA.
Faivovich, J., C. F. B. Haddad, P. C. A. Garcia, D. R. Frost, J. A. Campbell, and W. C. Wheeler. 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.
Lips, K. R., J. R. Mendelson 3rd, A. Muñoz-Alonso, L. Canseco-Márquez and D. G. Mulcahy. 2004. Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities. Biological Conservation 119(2004):555-564.
Mendelson III, J.R. and Campbell, J.A. 1999. The taxonomic status of populations referred to Hyla chaneque in southern Mexico, with the description of a new treefrog from Oaxaca. Journal of Herpetology. 33(1):80-86.