Wright's mountain tree frog

The Sonora tree frog, Sonoran tree toad, Arizona tree frog, Baird's Mexican hyla, Wright's mountain tree frog or Wright's tree frog (Dryophytes wrightorum) is a frog that lives in the United States and Mexico. It lives in a few different places in New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental. All the places where the frog lives are more than 2000 meters above sea level.[3][1]

Wright's mountain tree frog
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Dryophytes
Species:
D. wrightorum
Binomial name
Dryophytes wrightorum
(Taylor, 1939)
Synonyms[3]
  • Hyla wrightorum (Taylor, 1939)
  • Hyla eximia wrightorum (Schmidt, 1953)
  • Hyla regilla wrightorum (Jameson, Mackey, and Richmond, 1966)
  • Hyla (Dryophytes) wrightorum (Fouquette and Dubois, 2014)
  • Dryophytes wrightorum (Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016)
For another frog called the Sonoran tree toad, see Dryophytes arenicolor.
For another frog called the Arizona tree frog, see Dryophytes arenicolor and Dryophytes eximius.
For another frog called the mountain tree frog, see Dryophytes eximius.

The adult frog is 1.9 to 5.1 cm long from nose to rear end. It is bright green with a dark line running from each side of its nose down its body and brown spots. Its belly is orange.[1]

This frog lives near ponds and streams where the water does not move quickly.[1]

References
  1. Jacobo Conde; Gordon Lau (June 24, 2011). "Hyla wrightorum: Arizona Treefrog, Wright's Mountain Tree Frog: Subgenus: Dryophytes". Amphibiaweb. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  2. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2021). "Wright's Mountain Treefrog: Dryophytes wrightorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: e.T55696A53959260. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T55696A53959260.en. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
  3. "Dryophytes wrightorum (Taylor, 1939)". Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
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