''Teratohyla'' is a small genus of
glassfrog
The glass frogs belong to the amphibian family Centrolenidae (order Anura). While the general background coloration of most glass frogs is primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of some members of this family is transparent and translucent, ...
s in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Centroleninae. The genus was for a while included in ''
Centrolenella'' and then ''
Cochranella'', but it was resurrected in 2009. These frogs are distributed from lowlands of Central America from Honduras southwards to Pacific and Amazonian wet tropical lowlands of South America.
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Species
There are five species in this genus:[
* '' Teratohyla adenocheira'' (Harvey and Noonan, 2005)
* '' Teratohyla amelie'' (Cisneros-Heredia and Meza-Ramos, 2007)
* '' Teratohyla midas'' (Lynch and Duellman, 1973)
* '']Teratohyla pulverata
''Teratohyla'' is a small genus of glassfrogs in the subfamily Centroleninae. The genus was for a while included in '' Centrolenella'' and then ''Cochranella'', but it was resurrected in 2009. These frogs are distributed from lowlands of Centra ...
'' (Peters, 1873)
* '' Teratohyla spinosa'' (Taylor, 1949)
The AmphibiaWeb, however, places ''Teratohyla adenocheira'' in the genus '' Cochranella''.[
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References
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Glass frogs
Amphibians of Central America
Amphibians of South America
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor