Hyalinobatrachium is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are widely distributed in the Americas, from tropical Mexico to southeastern Brazil and Argentina.
Taxonomy and systematics
The genus is currently defined to include Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni and its closest relatives. Its sister taxon is Celsiella. Some species formerly in this genus are now in Vitreorana or Teratohyla.
Description
Hyalinobatrachium have a bulbous liver covered by white pigment, a transparent parietal peritoneum, and lack a humeral spine in adult males. The bones are white in living animals. Males usually call from the underside of leaves. Females deposit one layer of eggs on the underside of leaves.
Species
As of March 2022, these species are included in the genus:
- Hyalinobatrachium adespinosai <small>Guayasamin, Vieira, Glor, and Hutter, 2019</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium anachoretus <small>Twomey, Delia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum <small>(Barrera-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Carranza, 1989)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium bergeri <small>(Cannatella, 1980)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium cappellei <small>(Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium carlesvilai <small>Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Chaparro, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2009</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi <small>(Taylor, 1958)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum <small>(Taylor, 1949)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium dianae <small>Kubicki, Salazar, and Puschendorf, 2015</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium duranti <small>(Rivero, 1985)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium esmeralda <small>Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni <small>(Boettger, 1893)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium fragile <small>(Rivero, 1985)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium guairarepanense <small>Señaris, 2001</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium iaspidiense <small>(Ayarzagüena, 1992)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium ibama <small>Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium kawense <small>Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium mashpi <small>Guayasamin, Brunner, Valencia-Aguilar, Franco-Mena, Ringler, Armijos, Morochz, Bustamante, Maynard & Culebras, 2022</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium mesai <small>Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 2008</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium mondolfii <small>Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2001</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium muiraquitan <small>Oliveira and Hernández-Ruz, 2017</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium munozorum <small>(Lynch and Duellman, 1973)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium nouns <small>Guayasamin, Brunner, Valencia-Aguilar, Franco-Mena, Ringler, Armijos, Morochz, Bustamante, Maynard & Culebras, 2022</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium orientale <small>(Rivero, 1968)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium orocostale <small>(Rivero, 1968)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium pallidum <small>(Rivero, 1985)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum <small>(Lynch and Duellman, 1973)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium solaris <small>(2025)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium talamancae <small>(Taylor, 1952)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi <small>Castroviejo-Fisher, Ayarzagüena, and Vilà, 2007</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium taylori <small>(Goin, 1968)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium tricolor <small>Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium valerioi <small>(Dunn, 1931)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum <small>(Starrett and Savage, 1973)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum <small>(Taylor, 1942)</small>
- Hyalinobatrachium yaku <small>Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Maynard, Lynch, Culebras, and Hamilton, 2017</small>
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