Mexican burrowing tree frog

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.^[1] Its name is from the Ancient Greek smiliskos (‘little knife’), referring to the pointed frontoparietal processes.^[2]

Smilisca
Smilisca phaeota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:	Hylinae
Genus:	Smilisca Cope, 1865
Species
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Species

Binomial name and author	Common name
S. baudinii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)	common Mexican tree frog
S. cyanosticta (Smith, 1953)	blue-spotted Mexican tree frog
S. dentata (Smith, 1957)	upland burrowing tree frog
S. fodiens (Boulenger, 1882)	lowland burrowing tree frog
S. manisorum (Taylor, 1954)	masked tree frog
S. phaeota (Cope, 1862)	New Granada cross-banded tree frog or masked tree frog
S. puma (Cope, 1885)	Nicaragua cross-banded tree frog
S. sila Duellman and Trueb, 1966	Panama cross-banded tree frog
S. sordida (Peters, 1863)	Veragua cross-banded tree frog