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HABITAT: Tropical Montane Habitat, 4,500′, Oaxaca, Mexico Rain Forest Habitat, 291′, Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

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Anotheca spinosa

CROWNED TREEFROG
Anotheca spinosa – Steindachner 1864

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Tropical Montane Habitat, 4,500′, Oaxaca, Mexico

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

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PERSONAL NOTES:
On the rainless evening of July 8, 2005 I believe I heard the vocalizations of a single male Anotheca spinosa from a densely forested, vertical hillside opposite our campsite near Vista Hermosa, Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca. The call was a distinct “Booop. Boooop.” Other species calling this night were Agalychnis moreleti and Smilisca cyanosticta.

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REFERENCES:
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.