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Last update: 17 August, 2003

A genus of hylid frogs containing only 12 species from central America.

Ptychohyla Taylor, 1944
(Type = Ptychohyla adipoventris Taylor, 1944)
Ptychohyla acrochorda Campbell & Duellman, 2000

Distribution: Mexico.
Ptychohyla erythromma (Taylor, 1937)
Hyla erythromma Taylor, 1937
Distribution: Mexico.
Ptychohyla euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928)
Hyla euthysanota Kellogg, 1928
Hyla rozellae Taylor, 1942
Ptychohyla bogerti Taylor, 1949
Ptychohyla euthysanota euthysanota (Kellogg, 1928)
Ptychohyla rozellae (Taylor, 1942)
Distribution: El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
Ptychohyla hypomykter McCranie & Wilson, 1993

Distribution: Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Ptychohyla legleri (Taylor, 1958)
Hyla legleri Taylor, 1958
Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama.
Ptychohyla leonhardschultzei (Ahl, 1934)
Hyla leonhard-schultzei Ahl, 1934
Ptychohyla adipoventris Taylor, 1944
Hyla milleri Shannon, 1951
Distribution: Mexico.
Ptychohyla macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957)
Hyla macrotympanum Tanner, 1957
Ptychohyla euthysanota macrotympanum (Tanner, 1957)
Distribution: Guatemala and Mexico.
Ptychohyla panchoi Duellman & Campbell, 1982

Distribution: Guatemala.
Ptychohyla salvadorensis (Mertens, 1952)
Hyla salvadorensis Mertens, 1952
Distribution: El Salvador and Honduras.
Ptychohyla santaecrucis Campbell & Smith, 1992

Distribution: Guatemala.
Ptychohyla spinipollex (Schmidt, 1936)
Hyla spinipollex Schmidt, 1936
Ptychohyla merazi Wilson & McCranie, 1989
Distribution: Honduras.
Ptychohyla zophodes Campbell & Duellman, 2000

Distribution: Mexico.
Literature
Ahl, E. 1934. Über eine sammlung von Reptilien und Amphibien aus Mexiko. Zool. Anz., 106: 184-186.
Campbell, J.A. & W.E. Duellman. 2000. New species of stream-breeding hylid frogs from the northern versant of the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 16: 1-28.
Campbell, J.A. & E.N. Smith. 1992. A New Frog of the Genus Ptychohyla (Hylidae) from the Sierra de Santa Cruz, Guatemala, and Description of a New Genus of Middle American Stream-Breeding Treefrogs. Herpetologica, 48(2): 153-167.
Duellman, W.E. 1960. Synonymy, variation, and distribution of Ptychohyla leonhard-schultzei Ahl. Studies of American hylid frogs IV. Herpetologica, 16: 191-197.
Duellman, W.E. 1963. A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15(7): 297-349.
Duellman, W.E. 1970. The Hylid Frogs of Middle America. Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 1: 1-753.
Duellman, W.E. 2001. The Hylid Frogs of Middle America. SSAR Contrib. Herp., 18: 1-1180 pp.
Duellman, W.E. & J.A. Campbell. 1982. A New Frog of the Genus Ptychohyla (Hylidae) from the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala. Herpetologica, 38(3): 374-380.
Kellogg, R. 1928. An apparently new Hyla from El Salvador. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 41: 123-124.
Lynch, J.D. & H.M. Smith. 1966. New or unusual amphibians and reptiles from Oaxaca, Mexico, II. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 69: 58-75.
McCranie, J.R. & L.D. Wilson. 1993. Taxonomic changes associated with the names Hyla spinipollex Schmidt and Ptychohyla merazi Wilson and McCranie (Anura: Hylidae). Southwest. Nat., 38: 100-104.
Mertens, R. 1952. Zur kentnis der Amphibienfauna von El Salvador. Senckenbergiana, 33: 169-171.
Proy, C. 1993. Erste Terrarienbeobachtungen zur Fortpflanzung von Hyla legleri Taylor, 1958 aus Costa Rica (Anura: Hylidae). Herpetozoa, 6: 105-111.
Savage, J.M. & W.R. Heyer. 1969. The tree-frogs (Family Hylidae) of Costa Rica: diagnosis and distribution. Rev. Biol. Trop., 16(1): 1-127.
Schmidt, K.P. 1936. New amphibians and reptiles from Honduras in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 49: 43-50.
Shannon, F.A. 1951. Notes on a herpetological collection from Oaxaca and other localities in Mexico. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 101: 465-484.
Stuart, L.C. 1954. Descriptions of some new amphibians and reptiles from Guatemala. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 67: 159-178.
Tanner, W.W. 1957. Notes on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from southern Mexico, with a description of a new Hyla. Great Basin. Nat., 17: 52-56.
Taylor, E.H. 1942. New tailless amphibia from Mexico. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 67-89.
Taylor, E.H. 1944. A new genus and species of Mexican frogs. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 41-45.
Taylor, E.H. 1949. New or unusual Mexican amphibians. Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1437: 1-21.
Taylor, E.H. 1958. Additions to the known herpetological fauna of Costa Rica with comments on other species. No. III. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 3-40.
Wilson, L.D. & J.R. McCranie. 1989. A New Species of Ptychohyla of the euthysanota Group from Honduras, with comments on the Status of the Genus Ptychohyla Taylor (Anura: Hylidae). Herpetologica, 45(1): 10-17.