Agalychnis

Agalychnis is a genus of tree frogs native to forests in Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America.

Agalychnis
Red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Phyllomedusidae
Genus: Agalychnis
Cope, 1864
Type species
Agalychnis callidryas

Taxonomy

The following species are recognised in the genus Agalychnis:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963)Blue-sided leaf frogCosta Rica and Panama
Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)Warty leaf frogColombia and Ecuador
Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862)Red-eyed tree frogMexico, through Central America, to Colombia
Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864)Mexican leaf frogMexico
Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988)Antioquia leaf frogColombia
Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995)North-eastern Peru, possibly in nearby Ecuador
Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882)Lemur leaf frogCosta Rica, Panama and northern Colombia
Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)Rancho Grande leaf frogVenezuela
Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853)Morelet's tree frogBelize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980)Flecked tree frogSouthern Colombia and north-western Ecuador
Agalychnis saltator (Taylor, 1955)Misfit leaf frognortheastern Honduras through Nicaragua to east-central Costa Rica
Agalychnis spurrelli (Boulenger, 1913)Gliding leaf frogColombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama
Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957Honduras, Guatemala, and southern Mexico
Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid, and Daza-R., 2013Colombia

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