Dryophytes

Dryophytes is a genus of Ameroasian tree frogs in the family Hylidae. They are found mostly in North America, but the genus also includes three species found in eastern Asia.[1]

Dryophytes
Gray tree frog (Dryophytes versicolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Subfamily: Hylinae
Genus: Dryophytes
Fitzinger, 1843
Species

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Description

Dryophytes consists of small tree-dwelling frogs, usually green or gray in color. They have digits ending with expanded discs to help them sick to surfaces like trees.[1][2]

Habitat

These tree frogs are found in wetlands throughout their range, as well as in temperate forests both on the ground and in trees.[3]

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by Fitzinger in 1843.[4] Later it was placed into the genus Hyla, the true tree frogs, by Boulenger in 1882.[4] Fouquette and Dubois 2014, treated Dryophytes as a subgenus of Hyla.[4] Dryophytes was finally resurrected as an independent genus by Duellman et al. in 2016.[1][4][5][6]

Only geographical, rather than morphological, differences separates Dryophytes from the genus Hyla. Hyla is found only in the Old World, whereas Dryophytes is distributed in the New World. Most members occur in North America, but three species are found in eastern temperate Asia; D. immaculata, D. japonica, and D. suweonensis.[1]

Species

The genus Dryophytes contains 20 species.[1][7]

Pine Barrens tree frog (Dryophytes andersonii)
American green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus)
Mountain Treefrog, (Dryophytes eximius), Municipality of Gómez Farías, Tamaulipas, Mexico (27 May 2005).
Binomial name and author Common name
Dryophytes andersonii (Baird 1854) Pine Barrens tree frog
Dryophytes aboricola (Taylor, 1941) Arboreal tree frog
Dryophytes arenicolor (Cope, 1866) Canyon tree frog
Dryophytes avivocus (Viosca, 1928) Bird-voiced tree frog
Dryophytes bocourti (Mocquard, 1899) Bocourt's tree frog
Dryophytes chrysoscelis (Cope, 1880) Cope's gray tree frog
Dryophytes cinereus (Schneider, 1799) American green tree frog
Dryophytes euphorbiaceus (Günther, 1858) Southern highland tree frog
Dryophytes eximius (Baird 1854) Mountain tree frog
Dryophytes femoralis (Daudin, 1800) Pine woods tree frog
Dryophytes flaviventris (Borzée and Min, 2019) Yellow-bellied tree frog
Dryophytes gratiosus (LeConte, 1856) Barking tree frog
Dryophytes immaculatus (Boettger, 1888) Spotless tree toad
Dryophytes japonicus (Günther, 1859) Japanese tree frog
Dryophytes plicatus (Brocchi, 1877) Ridged tree frog
Dryophytes squirellus (Daudin, 1800) Squirrel tree frog
Dryophytes suweonensis (Kuramoto, 1980) Suweon tree frog
Dryophytes versicolor (LeConte, 1825) Gray tree frog
Dryophytes walkeri (Stuart, 1954) Walker's tree frog
Dryophytes wrightorum (Taylor, 1939) Wright's mountain tree frog

References
  1. Duellman, William; et al. (19 April 2016). "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae)". Zootaxa. 4104 (1).
  2. Live Science Staff (July 3, 2011). "Tree Frog's Sticky Secrets Revealed". livescience.com. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
  3. "Dryophytes - Genus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  4. "Dryophytes Fitzinger, 1843". Amphibian Species of the World.
  5. "AmphibiaWeb - Hyla versicolor". amphibiaweb.org. Taxonomic Notes. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  6. "AmphibiaWeb - Hylidae". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  7. "Dryophytes - Genus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
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