Hyalinobatrachium is a genus of glass frogs, family Centrolenidae. They are widely distributed in the Americas, from tropical Mexico to southeastern Brazil and Argentina.
Taxonomy and systematics The genus is currently defined to include Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni and its closest relatives. Its sister taxon is Celsiella. Some species formerly in this genus are now in Vitreorana or Teratohyla.
Description Hyalinobatrachium have a bulbous liver covered by white pigment, a transparent parietal peritoneum, and lack a humeral spine in adult males. The bones are white in living animals. Males usually call from the underside of leaves. Females deposit one layer of eggs on the underside of leaves.
Species As of March 2022, these species are included in the genus: Hyalinobatrachium adespinosai Guayasamin, Vieira, Glor, and Hutter, 2019 Hyalinobatrachium anachoretus Twomey, Delia, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2014 Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum (Barrera-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Carranza, 1989) Hyalinobatrachium bergeri (Cannatella, 1980) Hyalinobatrachium cappellei (Van Lidth de Jeude, 1904) Hyalinobatrachium carlesvilai Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Chaparro, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2009 Hyalinobatrachium chirripoi (Taylor, 1958) Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum (Taylor, 1949) Hyalinobatrachium dianae Kubicki, Salazar, and Puschendorf, 2015 Hyalinobatrachium duranti (Rivero, 1985) Hyalinobatrachium esmeralda Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998 Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni (Boettger, 1893) Hyalinobatrachium fragile (Rivero, 1985) Hyalinobatrachium guairarepanense Señaris, 2001 Hyalinobatrachium iaspidiense (Ayarzagüena, 1992) Hyalinobatrachium ibama Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1998 Hyalinobatrachium kawense Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011 Hyalinobatrachium mashpi Guayasamin, Brunner, Valencia-Aguilar, Franco-Mena, Ringler, Armijos, Morochz, Bustamante, Maynard & Culebras, 2022 Hyalinobatrachium mesai Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 2008 Hyalinobatrachium mondolfii Señaris and Ayarzagüena, 2001 Hyalinobatrachium muiraquitan Oliveira and Hernández-Ruz, 2017 Hyalinobatrachium munozorum (Lynch and Duellman, 1973) Hyalinobatrachium nouns Guayasamin, Brunner, Valencia-Aguilar, Franco-Mena, Ringler, Armijos, Morochz, Bustamante, Maynard & Culebras, 2022 Hyalinobatrachium orientale (Rivero, 1968) Hyalinobatrachium orocostale (Rivero, 1968) Hyalinobatrachium pallidum (Rivero, 1985) Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum (Lynch and Duellman, 1973) Hyalinobatrachium solaris (2025) Hyalinobatrachium talamancae (Taylor, 1952) Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi Castroviejo-Fisher, Ayarzagüena, and Vilà, 2007 Hyalinobatrachium taylori (Goin, 1968) Hyalinobatrachium tricolor Castroviejo-Fisher, Vilà, Ayarzagüena, Blanc, and Ernst, 2011 Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (Dunn, 1931) Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum (Starrett and Savage, 1973) Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum (Taylor, 1942) Hyalinobatrachium yaku Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Maynard, Lynch, Culebras, and Hamilton, 2017
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