Tepuihyla, commonly known as Amazon tree frogs or Tepui tree frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in mountains of eastern and south-eastern Venezuela and Guyana, and likely in adjacent Brazil.[2] A tepui is a table-top mountain characteristic of the Guiana Highlands.

Tepuihyla
Tepuihyla talbergae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Lophyohylinae
Genus: Tepuihyla
Ayarzagüena, Señaris & Gorzula, 1993[1]
Diversity
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Species edit

The following species are recognised in the genus Tepuihyla:[2]

Binomial name and author Common name
T. aecii (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993) Monte Duida tree frog
T. edelcae (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993) Ayarzaguena's tree frog
T. exophthalma (Smith and Noonan, 2001)
T. luteolabris (Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993)
T. obscura (Kok, Ratz, Tegelaar, Aubret, and Means, 2015)
T. rodriguezi (Rivero, 1968) Rodriguez's Amazon tree frog
T. shushupe (Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia, and Salerno, 2016)
T. tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882) Canelos treefrog
T. warreni (Duellman and Hoogmoed, 1992)

References edit

  1. ^ Ayarzagüena, J., J.C. Señaris y S. Gorzula (1992) Un nuevo genero para las especies del "grupo Osteocephalus rodriguezi" (Anura: ylidae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle. 52(138): 213-221
  2. ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Tepuihyla Ayarzagüena, Señaris, and Gorzula, 1993". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 June 2014.

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