Check List 20(3): 721-727, doi: 10.15560/20.3.721
First record of Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877 (Anura, Hylidae) from Nicaragua
Celsa Señaris‡, Javier Sunyer§|‡ Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain§ International Union for Conservation of Nature, Amphibian Specialist Group, León, Nicaragua| Museo Herpetológico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua – León, León, Nicaragua
Corresponding author: Celsa Señaris ( celsisenaris@ebd.csic.es ) Academic editor: Manuella Folly © Celsa Señaris, Javier Sunyer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Señaris C, Sunyer J (2024) First record of Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877 (Anura, Hylidae) from Nicaragua. Check List 20(3): 721-727. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.3.721 |  |
Abstract
We confirm the presence of the genus Plectrohyla Brocchi, 1877 in Nicaragua and report the first records of Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877 in the country based on three specimens collected in 1983 from the central mountain range of Matagalpa department. These specimens collected over 40 years ago are the southernmost records for the species and expand its geographic distribution by approximately 175 km southeast from its nearest recorded locality in Honduras.
Keywords
Amphibian, Central America, distribution extension, museum collections, Spikethumb Frog, threatened genus