Alta Verapaz Spikethumb Frog
Plectrohyla teuchestes
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Amphibians
Plectrohyla teuchestes is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is endemic to Guatemala and only known with certainty from its type locality on the southern slope of the Sierra de Xucaneb, in the Alta Verapaz Department. There is also a report from another locality in Alta Verapaz. Frogs from Honduras now known as Plectrohyla exquisita were formerly included in this species.
Classification
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Hylidae
- Genus
- Plectrohyla