Mexican burrowing tree frog

The Mexican burrowing tree frog  or cross-banded tree frog (Smilisca) is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They live in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America.

Scientists studying Hylidae recently decided that two species from Pternohyla were really Smilisca., 2005: Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, with Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Num. 294, pp.1-240.  
The name "smilisca" is from the Ancient Greek  for "little knife." The Mexican burrowing tree frogs are called Smilisca because they have pointed frontoparietal processes.

Species
Binomial name and author Common name S. baudinii   Common Mexican tree frog S. cyanosticta   Blue-spotted Mexican tree frog S. dentata   Upland burrowing tree frog S. fodiens   Lowland burrowing tree frog S. manisorum   Masked tree frog S. phaeota   New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog S. puma   Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog S. sila   Panama cross-banded tree frog S. sordida   Veragua cross-banded tree frog

References

 . (1993): Amphibian species of the world – Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1–372]

Other websites

 . 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Smilisca. Electronic Database accessible at https://web.archive.org/web/20071024033938/http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).
  [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Smilisca. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).

Category:Frogs of North America
Category:Frogs of South America