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Teratohyla

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Centrolenidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Frog

Class
  
Amphibia

Subfamily
  
Centroleninae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Rulyrana, Espadarana, Vitreorana, Chimerella, Nymphargus

Teratohyla is a small genus of glassfrogs in subfamily Centroleninae. The genus was for a while included in Centrolenella and then Cochranella, but it was resurrected in 2009. These frogs are distributed from lowlands of Central America from Honduras southwards to Pacific and Amazonian wet tropical lowlands of South America.

Species

There are four species in this genus:

  • Teratohyla amelie (Cisneros-Heredia and Meza-Ramos, 2007)
  • Teratohyla midas (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
  • Teratohyla pulverata (Peters, 1873)
  • Teratohyla spinosa (Taylor, 1949)

    • References

    Teratohyla Wikipedia
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