NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS OF TREEFROGS (AMPHIBIA: HYLIDAE) FROM GUERRERO, MEXICO

Ricardo Palacios Aguilar; Fernando Sebastian Palacios-Resendiz; Eduardo Yesua Barrera-Nava

doi:10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.2.1197

Authors

Ricardo Palacios Aguilar Museo de Zoología "Alfonso L. Herrera", Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-5534
Fernando Sebastian Palacios-Resendiz
Eduardo Yesua Barrera-Nava

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2025.2.1197

Keywords:

Sierra Madre del Sur, Endemism, Anura, higlands

Abstract

Hylid frogs represent a conspicuous component of biodiversity, especially in Mesoamerican highlands. Herein, we report on novel distribution records of three endemic species of hylid treefrogs from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero, southern Mexico.

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