Sarcohyla cyclada

Sarcohyla cyclada
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1][2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Sarcohyla
Species:	S. cyclada
Binomial name
Sarcohyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)
Synonyms[3]
Hyla cyclada (Campbell and Duellman, 2000) Plectrohyla cyclada (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005) Sarcohyla cyclada (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

The tan-edged tree frog (Sarcohyla cyclada) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have seen it in cloud forests between 1600 and 2180 meters above sea level, in pine and oak forests at 2370 and 2670 meters above sea level, and in cloud forest and oak and madroño forests between 2121 and 2568 meters above sea level.^[3][1]

This frog changes color. At night, the skin on its back is a very light brown and yellow-brown toward its rear end. During the day, its skin is brown with green marks and green-brown toward its rear end. It has webbing on all four feet, more on the back feet than on the front feet.^[1]

People have seen this frog in bromeliad plants that grow on trees. The young have been seen in pools of water in streams.^[2]

Herpetologist Duellman says this frog is related to frogs in the Hyla miotympanum group.^[1]

There are fewer of this frog than there were. Scientists say this is because human beings change the places where the frog lives by cutting down forests to get wood to build with. The fungal disease chytridiomycosis can also kill this frog.^[2]

References

1. Raul E. Diaz (June 4, 2004). "Sarcohyla cyclada". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Tan-edged Treefrog: Sarcohyla cyclada". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55460A53954602. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55460A53954602.en. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
3. Frost, Darrel R. "Sarcohyla hapsa (Campbell and Duellman, 2000)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 26, 2021.