Ecnomiohyla, or fringe-limbed treefrogs or marvelous frogs, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. A genus is a group of species. It is part of taxonomy, which is the way scientists put living things in groups.
Scientists invented this group in 2005 after looking very closely at which frogs they had put in Hylidae. At first, scientists had put ten species in this genus. Before that, those frogs had been in Hyla. Two more species, E. rabborum and E. sukia, were discovered later.
Name
The name Ecnomiohyla comes from the Greek word ecnomios ("marvelous" or "unusual") and Hylas. In Greek mythology, Hylas was Hercules' friend.
Appearance
Frogs in Ecnomiohyla are middle-sized or large. They have fringes of skin on their legs. They have very large front and back feet. They live in canopies in wet forested highlands in southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia. They are capable of gliding using their webbed hands and feet.
Species
The genus has 12 species in it,
AmphibiaWeb lists the same species but also includes Rheohyla miotympanum in this genus.
