Spine-fingered tree frog

Spine-fingered tree frog
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Genus:	Charadrahyla
Species:	C. trux
Binomial name
Charadrahyla trux (Adler and Dennis, 1972)
Synonyms[2]
Hyla trux (Adler and Dennis, 1972) Charadrahyla trux (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)

The spine-fingered tree frog or spinefinger tree frog (Charadrahyla trux) is a frog that lives in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains in Mexico. This frog lives in cloud forests. Scientists have seen it between 1760 and 2415 meters above sea level.^[2][3]

This frog has smooth skin on its back and rough skin on its belly and legs. It is pale brown in color with darker spots. There is some blue color on its middle. Its front feet have some webbing and its back feet have more webbing. The adult male frog has a pointed face and the adult female frog has a rounder one.^[3]

References

1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Spine-fingered Treefrog: Charadrahyla trux". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55681A169552635. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55681A169552635.en. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
2. "Charadrahyla trux (Adler and Dennis, 1961)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
3. Raul E. Diaz (June 4, 2004). Tate Tunstall (ed.). "Charadrahyla trux". Amphibiaweb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 31, 2022.