Sarcohyla pachyderma

The semiaquatic tree frog (Sarcohyla pachyderma) is a frog that lives in Mexico. Scientists have only seen it in one place, the eastern side of the Sierra Madre mountains in Veracruz, 1600 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Sarcohyla pachyderma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Sarcohyla
Species:
S. robertsorum
Binomial name
Sarcohyla robertsorum
(Taylor, 1942)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942)
  • Plectrohyla pachyderma (Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005)
  • Sarcohyla pachyderma (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)

Scientists think this frog is in very big danger of dying out. They think these frogs might all be dead now, but they are not sure. Scientists only ever saw this frog in one stream and they have not seen it since 1940.[2]

References
  1. "Sarcohyla pachyderma". AmphibiaWeb. Amphibiaweb. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2020). "Semiaquatic tree frog: Sarcohyla pachyderma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55583A53956706. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T55583A53956706.en. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
  3. Frost, Darrel R. "Sarcohyla pachyderma (Taylor, 1942)". Amphibian Species of the World, an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved November 12, 2021.
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