The Mexican burrowing tree frog (Smilisca), also known as the cross-banded tree frog, is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in Mexico, southern Texas and Arizona, Central America, and northwestern South America. In a recent revision of the Hylidae, the two species of the previous genus Pternohyla were included in this genus., 2005: Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, with Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Num. 294, pp.1-240. Its name is from the Ancient Greek (‘little knife’), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.
Species Binomial name and author Common name S. baudinii common Mexican tree frog S. cyanosticta blue-spotted Mexican tree frog S. dentata upland burrowing tree frog S. fodiens lowland burrowing tree frog S. manisorum masked tree frog S. phaeota New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog S. puma Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog S. sila Panama cross-banded tree frog S. sordida Veragua cross-banded tree frog
References
. (1993): Amphibian species of the world – Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Spec. Publ.), Kansas 21, pp. [1–372]
External links
. 2007. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.1 (10 October 2007). Smilisca. Electronic Database accessible at https://web.archive.org/web/20071024033938/http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: April 23, 2008). [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Smilisca. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: April 23, 2008).