Agalychnis

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Agalychnis
Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae
Genus: Agalychnis
Cope, 1864
Type species
Agalychnis callidryas
(Cope, 1862)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pachymedusa Duellman, 1968

Agalychnis is a genus of tree frogs native to forests in Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.[1]

Taxonomy

The following species are recognised in the genus Agalychnis:[1]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Agalychnis annae
(Duellman, 1963)
Blue-sided leaf frog Costa Rica and Panama
Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) Warty leaf frog Colombia and Ecuador
Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862) Red-eyed tree frog Mexico, through Central America, to Colombia
Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864) Mexican leaf frog Mexico
Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988) Antioquia leaf frog Colombia
Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995) North-eastern Peru, possibly in nearby Ecuador
Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882) Lemur leaf frog Costa Rica, Panama and northern Colombia
Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962) Rancho Grande leaf frog Venezuela
Agalychnis moreletii
(Duméril, 1853)
Morelet's tree frog Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980) Flecked tree frog Southern Colombia and north-western Ecuador
Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955 Misfit leaf frog northeastern Honduras through Nicaragua to east-central Costa Rica
Agalychnis spurrelli
Boulenger, 1913
Gliding leaf frog Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama
Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957 Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico
Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid, and Daza-R., 2013 Colombia

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