Mexico Herpetology

Adult Male, 4,500′, Oaxaca, Mexico

Adult Male, 4,500′, Oaxaca, Mexico

Inactive Adult Male, 4,500′, Oaxaca, Mexico

MORELET’S LEAF FROG
Agalychnis moreletii – Dumeril 1853

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Historically, Agalychnis moreletii is found in several widely-disjunct regions of southern Mexico; In Puebla it is known from the Sierra Norte, in Veracruz from Cuautlapan and the Los Tuxtlas region, in Oaxaca from the Sierra [...]

RED-EYED TREEFROG
Agalychnis callidryas – Cope 1862

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Rain Forest Habitat, 291′, Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

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My only experience with this frog is with a possible mangled individual I found on the highway south of Lago de Catemaco, Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz in June, 2005. Many species of Anura were heard calling from adjacent [...]