Atlantihyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. These frogs live in Honduras and Guatemala in Central America. Scientists named these frogs Atlantihyla because they live on the east side of the narrow piece of land, which is the same side as the Atlantic Ocean. These frogs are named stream frogs in English.
Taxonomy
Scientists made the genus using information about DNA. Julián Faivovich and colleagues looked at the subfamily Hylinae in 2018. They moved two former Ptychohyla species to Atlantihyla and four former Ptychohyla species to Quilticohyla. Atlantihyla is a sister group with Bromeliohyla, Duellmanohyla, and Quilticohyla. A third Atlantihyla species was described in 2020.
Description
These frogs only look alike in one way: They have a white stripe on the sides of their bodies and a ridge on their backs. Adult male frogs are and adult female frogs are long from nose to rear end. The tadpoles have large mouth discs.
Species
There are three species in this genus: Atlantihyla melissa Townsend, Herrera-B., Hofmann, Luque-Montes, Ross, Dudek, Krygeris, Duchamp, and Wilson, 2020 Atlantihyla panchoi (Duellman and Campbell, 1982) – Guatemala stream frog Atlantihyla spinipollex (K. P. Schmidt, 1936) – Ceiba stream frog
AmphibiaWeb says this genus is monotypic, with Atlantihyla melissa as the only species in it.