Mountain Stream Frogs
Ptychohyla
Ptychohyla is a genus of frogs (common names: stream frogs, mountain stream frogs) in the family Hylidae. These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.
Ptychohyla has a pale pink iris and nuptial outgrowth in breeding males that differentiates this new species from other Mexican frog groups. This new species usually live in untouched tropical forest. They are known to be vulnerable in modified habitat by humans.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Copan Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla hypomykter
Schultze's Mountain Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla leonhardschultzei
Cloud Forest Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla euthysanota
Gloomy Mountain Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla zophodes
Pine Forest Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla macrotympanum
Phantom Stream Frog
speciesPtychohyla dendrophasma
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 24413.