Duellmanohyla

Duellmanohyla or mountain brook frogs is a group of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs live in Oaxaca, Mexico and in Central America. These are small frogs that lay eggs in streams.

Description
Duellmanohyla are small frogs.  Their eyes are bright red, bronze, or yellow. Their stomachs are pale green, olive, red-brown, or patterned like lichen: green spots on black. Some of these frogs have stripes on their mouths and the sides of the bodies. Some of them have webbed feet and some do not.

Ecology
Duellmanohyla lay eggs in mountain streams where the water moves fast. Because they swim, they have some webbing on their front feet and on some of the toes of their back feet. Scientists have not seen any of the frogs lay eggs, but they think the female frogs lay eggs on the plants above the water.  Then the tadpoles fall into the stream. The tadpoles have dangling oral discs that they use to hold on to the bottom of the stream.

Species
The genus has eight species:
Binomial name and author Common name D. chamulae   Chamula mountain brook frog  D. ignicolor   Sierra Juarez brook frog  D. lythrodes   Savage's brook frog  D. rufioculis   Rufous-eyed brook frog D. salvavida   Honduran brook frog  D. schmidtorum   Schmidt's mountain brook frog  D. soralia   Copan brook frog  D. uranochroa   Costa Rica brook frog 

References

Category:Frogs
Category:Frogs of North America