Honduras Spikethumb Frog

About the Honduras Spikethumb Frog

Plectrohyla dasypus, the Honduras spikethumb frog, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to northwestern Honduras. Plectrohyla dasypus was first formally described in 1981 by the American herpetologists James R. McCranie and Larry David Wilson with its type locality given as along the Quebrada Cusuco at El Cusuco, 15°30'N, 88°, 13'W 5.6 km (3.5 mi) at an elevation of 1,580 m (5,180 ft), west south west of Buenos Aires, which is 19 km (12 mi) north of Cofradía in the Sierra de Omoa, Cortés, Honduras. This species was placed within the P. guatemalensis species group within the genus Plectrohyla, following the inclusion of the Hyla bistincta species group in that genus. Subsequent work has moved the Hyla bistincta group into a separate genus, Sarcohyla. The genus Plectrohyla is included in the subfamily Hylinae of the "tree frog" family Hylidae within the frog and toad order Anura.

Plectrohyla dasypus belongs to the genus Plectrohyla which combines the Greek plēktron, meaning "spur" with the genus name Hyla, the type genus of the family Hylidae. The specific name, dasypus, is the genus name of the Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus... Wikipedia →