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Schmidt's mountain brook frog

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Anura

Genus
  
Duellmanohyla

Higher classification
  
Duellmanohyla

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Hylidae

Scientific name
  
Duellmanohyla schmidtorum

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Duellmanohyla, Copan brook frog, Costa Rica brook frog, Ptychohyla, Plectrohyla sagorum

Schmidt's mountain brook frog (Duellmanohyla schmidtorum) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to the Pacific slopes of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southwestern Guatemala and southern Mexico in eastern Oaxaca and southwestern Chiapas. It is named after Karl Patterson Schmidt, American herpetologist, and his brother Frank, who collected with him.

The species' natural habitats are montane cloud forests, elevations 1,300–2,200 m (4,300–7,200 ft) above sea level. It is threatened by habitat loss caused by deforestation and infrastructure development, and possibly, chytridiomycosis.

References

Schmidt's mountain brook frog Wikipedia