Myersiohyla Explained

Myersiohyla is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. It was erected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae and initially included four species that were previously placed in the genus Hyla.^[1] The genus is found in the tepui region of Guyana and Venezuela.

Species

There are six species in this genus:

• Myersiohyla aromatica (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994)
• Myersiohyla chamaeleo (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013)
• Myersiohyla inparquesi (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994)
• Myersiohyla liliae (Kok, 2006)
• Myersiohyla loveridgei (Rivero, 1961)
• Myersiohyla neblinaria (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013)

Further reading

• Faivovich, McDiarmid, Myers: Two new species of Myersiohyla (Anura, Hylidae) from Cerro de la Neblina, Venezuela, with comments on other species of the genus. (American Museum Novitates, no. 3792)

Notes and References

1. Julián Faivovich . Célio F.B. Haddad . Paulo C.A. Garcia . Darrel R. Frost . Jonathan A. Campbell . Ward C. Wheeler . amp . 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. 294. 1–240. 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)294[0001:SROTFF]2.0.CO;2. 2246/462 . 10.1.1.470.2967 . 83925199 .