Cross-banded Tree Frogs
Smilisca
The Mexican burrowing tree frog (Smilisca, also known as the cross-banded tree frog) is a genus of frogs in the Hylidae family found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae family, the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla were included in this genus. Its name is from the Ancient Greek smiliskos (‘little knife’), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 9 known species
Mexican Treefrog
speciesSmilisca baudinii
Masked Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca phaeota
Drab Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca sordida
Mosquito Coast Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca manisorum
Pugnosed Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca sila
Lowland Burrowing Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca fodiens
Blue-spotted Mexican Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca cyanosticta
Nicaragua Cross-banded Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca puma
Upland Burrowing Tree Frog
speciesSmilisca dentata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 24271.