The Mexican burrowing tree frog (Smilisca), also known as the cross-banded tree frog, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae, the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla were included in this genus. Its name is from the Ancient Greek ' (âÂÂlittle knifeâÂÂ), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.
Species
References
- . (1993): Amphibian species of the world â Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1âÂÂ372]
External links
- . 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Smilisca. Electronic Database accessible at https://web.archive.org/web/20071024033938/http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).
- [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Smilisca. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).