Ecnomiohyla

Ecnomiohyla, or fringe-limbed treefrogs or marvelous frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. A genus is a group of species.  It is part of taxonomy, which is the way scientists put living things in groups.

Scientists invented this group in 2005 after looking very closely at which frogs they had put in Hylidae. At first, scientists had put ten species in this genus.  Before that, those frogs had been in Hyla.  Two more species, E. rabborum and E. sukia, were discovered later.

Name

The name Ecnomiohyla comes from the Greek word ecnomios ("marvelous" or "unusual") and Hylas.  In Greek mythology, Hylas was Hercules' friend.

Appearance
Frogs in Ecnomiohyla are middle-sized or large. They have fringes of skin on their legs.  They have very large front and back feet. They live in canopies in wet forested highlands in southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. They are capable of gliding using their webbed hands and feet.

Species
The genus has 12 species in it,
Binomial name and author Common name Ecnomiohyla bailarina   Golden-eyed fringe-limbed treefrog Ecnomiohyla echinata   Oaxacan fringe-limbed treefrog Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra   Heredia treefrog  Ecnomiohyla miliaria   Cope's brown treefrog Ecnomiohyla minera   Guatemala treefrog Ecnomiohyla phantasmagoria    Ecnomiohyla rabborum   Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog (probably extinct, 2016) Ecnomiohyla salvaje   Copan treefrog  Ecnomiohyla sukia   Shaman fringe-limbed tree frog Ecnomiohyla thysanota   Cerro Mali treefrog  Ecnomiohyla valancifer   San Martin fringe-limbed treefrog  Ecnomiohyla veraguensis   

AmphibiaWeb lists the same species but also includes Rheohyla miotympanum in this genus.

Related pages
Flying frog

References

Category:Frogs of North America