Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America

The paper reports field and museum investigations that identify five new species and one subspecies of hylid frogs from Mexico and Central America. It supplies formal diagnoses, precise morphometric measurements, color and skin-character notes, and comparative remarks on relationships, with one taxon known only from existing museum material. Collecting localities, permitting and institutional repositories are documented, and plates illustrate diagnostic features. Brief natural-history and distributional observations accompany each description, and the author indicates comparative material and methods used to place the new taxa within regional hylid diversity.