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Hylidae
Hylidae is a wide-ranging family of frogs commonly referred to as "tree frogs and their allies". However, the hylids include a diversity of frog species, many of which do not live in trees, but are terrestrial or semiaquatic. Taxonomy and systematics The earliest known fossils that can be assigned to this family are from the Cretaceous of India and the state of Wyoming in the United States. The common name of "tree frog" is a popular name for several species of the family Hylidae. However, the name "treefrog" is not unique to this family, also being used for many species in the family Rhacophoridae. The following genera are recognised in the family Hylidae: * Subfamily Hylinae ** Tribe Cophomantini *** '' Aplastodiscus'' – canebrake treefrogs *** ''Boana'' – gladiator treefrogs *** ''Bokermannohyla'' *** ''Hyloscirtus'' *** ''Myersiohyla'' *** ''Nesorohyla'' *** '' "Hyla" nicefori'' ** Tribe Dendropsophini ***''Dendropsophus'' *** '' Julianus'' *** ''Lysapsus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudis
''Pseudis'' is a genus of South American frogs (swimming frogs) in the family Hylidae. They are often common and frequently heard, but easily overlooked because of their camouflage and lifestyle, living in lakes, ponds, marshes and similar waters with extensive aquatic vegetation, often sitting at the surface among plants or on floating plants, but rapidly diving if disturbed. Whereas the adults are medium-sized frogs, their tadpoles are large; in some species the world's longest.Franklyn, D. (2015). . The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 7 January 2020 Distribution ''Pseudis'' species are distributed throughout tropical and subtropical South America, almost entirely east of the Andes (''P. paradoxa'' is the only species with populations west of the Andes, in Colombia). They are found from Trinidad to northern Argentina, being absent only in Ecuador and Chile, highland regions, and the southernmost part of South America. All species occur in Brazil, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hylinae
Hylinae is a large subfamily of "tree frogs", family Hylidae. Classification The contents of this subfamily vary substantially according to the source. The Amphibian Species of the World follows the revision by Duellman and colleagues from 2016 based on molecular data and delimits the subfamily more narrowly than before, treating parts of former Hylinae as their own subfamilies. Following this classification, there were 18 genera totaling 174 species in the end of 2020. They are found North, Central, and the northmost South America, much of temperate Eurasia, Japan, and extreme northern Africa, however, only ''Hyla'' is found outside the Americas. The Wikipedia is following this classification. The AmphibiaWeb follows an older classification defining Hylinae more broadly, with several hundred species. At the end of 2020, the AmphibiaWeb lists 42 genera totaling 737 species. Amphibian Species of the World At the end of 2020, the Amphibian Species of the World includes the follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyloscirtus
''Hyloscirtus'' is a genus of Neotropical frogs in the family Hylidae. This genus was resurrected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae, with the distinguishing features being 56 transformations in nuclear and mitochondrial proteins and ribosomal genes. Of these species, 28 species, previously placed in the genus ''Hyla'', were moved to this genus. The fingers and toes of these frogs have wide dermal fringes. They are primarily found in foothill and mountain forests in the Andes, ranging from Bolivia to Venezuela, but a few species occur in adjacent lowlands or ''páramo'', and two ('' H. colymba'' and '' H. palmeri'') are found in Panama and Costa Rica. They are typically found near streams where they breed. Several species in this genus are seriously threatened by habitat loss, pollution, introduced species (predation by introduced trout), and the chytrid fungus ''Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis''. Species There are currently 37 recognized species in this genus: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphaenorhynchus
''Sphaenorhynchus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are also known as lime treefrogs or hatchet-faced treefrogs. They are found in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins of South America, the Guianas, Trinidad, and southern and eastern Brazil. The majority of the species are associated with the Atlantic Forest domain in Brazil. Systematics ''Sphaenorhynchus'' has been suggested to be the sister taxon of the clade ''Scarthyla'' + ''Scinax''. Faivovich and colleagues (2005) placed it in the tribe Dendropsophini, together with ''Dendropsophus'', ''Lysapsus'', ''Pseudis'', ''Scarthyla'', ''Scinax'', and ''Xenohyla''. Description ''Sphaenorhynchus'' are small to moderately sized frogs. They are bright green or yellowish green in life. The snout is pointed and projecting in lateral view. Most species have well-developed horizontal dermal flaps on each side of the anus. The fingers are weakly webbed while the toes are extensively webbed. Males have a vocal sac The vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dendropsophus
''Dendropsophus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. They are distributed in Central and South America, from southern Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay. They are sometimes known under the common name Fitzinger neotropical treefrogs or yellow treefrogs This genus was resurrected in 2005 following a major revision of the family Hylidae., 2005: Systematic Review of the Frog Family Hylidae, with Special Reference to Hylinae: Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision. ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'', Num. 294, pp.1-240/ref> The species believed to have 30 chromosomes, previously placed in the genus ''Hyla ''Hyla'' is a genus of frogs in the tree frog family Hylidae. As traditionally defined, it was a wastebasket genus with more than 300 species found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and across the Americas. After a major revision of the family most of th ...'', were later moved to this genus. Species The following species are recognised in the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bokermannohyla
''Bokermannohyla'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. It was erected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae. Twenty-three species previously placed in the genus ''Hyla'' were moved to this genus named in honor of Werner Carlos Augusto Bokermann, Brazilian herpetologist. The genus is endemic to southern Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area .... Species References Cophomantinae Amphibian genera Endemic fauna of Brazil Taxa named by Jonathan A. Campbell Taxa named by Darrel Frost {{Hylidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nesorohyla
''Nesorohyla'' is a monotypic genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. The sole species is ''Nesorohyla kanaima'', also known as the Kanaima treefrog. It is endemic to Guyana. and possibly Brazil and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...s. References Hylidae Monotypic amphibian genera Amphibians of Guyana Endemic fauna of Guyana Taxa named by Philippe J.R. Kok Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Hylidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lysapsus
''Lysapsus'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae found in South America east of the Andes. Their common name is harlequin frogs. Many frogs in ''Lysapsus'' have a paradoxical life cycle. They are most massive when they are older tadpoles and slightly smaller when they are adult frogs. Species There are four species: * ''Lysapsus bolivianus'' (Gallardo, 1961) * ''Lysapsus caraya'' (Gallardo, 1964) * ''Lysapsus laevis'' (Parker, 1935) * ''Lysapsus limellum'' (Cope, 1862) The status of ''Lysapsus bolivianus'' is unclear; it might be a subspecies of ''Lysapsus limellum''. References Lysapsus, Hylidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope {{Hylidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myersiohyla
''Myersiohyla'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. It was erected in 2005 following a major revision of the Hylidae and initially included four species that were previously placed in the genus ''Hyla''. The genus is found in the tepui region of Guyana and Venezuela. Species There are six species in this genus: * ''Myersiohyla aromatica'' (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994) * ''Myersiohyla chamaeleo'' (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013) * ''Myersiohyla inparquesi'' (Ayarzagüena and Señaris, 1994) * ''Myersiohyla liliae'' (Kok, 2006) * ''Myersiohyla loveridgei'' (Rivero, 1961) * ''Myersiohyla neblinaria ''Myersiohyla neblinaria'', the neblina tree frog, is a frog in the family Hylidae, endemic to Venezuela and possibly Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both ...'' (Faivovich, McDiarmid, and Myers, 2013) References Further reading Faivovich, McDiarmid, Myers: Two new species of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely Carnivore, carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order (biology), order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is known from the Early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock, molecular clock dating suggests their split from other amphibians may extend further back to the Permian, 265 Myr, million years ago. Frogs are widely distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and toads is informal, not from Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy or evolutionary history. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, anteriorly-attached tongue, limb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julianus (frog)
Julianus is a genus of tree frogs in the family Hylidae. They are found in southeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. This genus is considered poorly defined and is regarded by most to merely be a synonym of ''Scinax''. This genus is named after Julián Faivovich, who has contributed a notable amount of knowledge to the study of South American tree frogs. It was created because '' Scinax uruguayus'' differed from other ''Scinax'' in the larval oral disc morphology. More specifically, the tadpole has two keratinized and pigmented plates on the lower jaw sheath, along with the posterior marginal papillae being larger than the papillae on the lateral margins. The species '' Julianus pinimus'' was later added to this genus due to having similar features. However, other papers claim that these frogs are not distinct enough to be grouped into an entirely different genus and should be readded to ''Scinax''. This is because many of the characteristics used to define this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarthyla
''Scarthyla'' is a genus of tree frogs, the family Hylidae. They are found in the upper Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil and northward through Colombia and Venezuela to the Caribbean lowlands. They are sometimes known as Madre de Dios treefrogs and South American aquatic treefrogs. They are semiaquatic. Species The genus contains two species: * ''Scarthyla goinorum'' — Tarauaca snouted treefrog, Madre de Dios treefrog * ''Scarthyla vigilans ''Scarthyla vigilans'' (Maracaibo Basin treefrog) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae. It is found in northern Colombia (Caribbean lowlands, Magdalena Valley, and eastern llanos), northern Venezuela (Maracaibo Basin, Falcón, Coastal Ra ...'' — Maracaibo Basin treefrog References Hylidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera Taxa named by William Edward Duellman Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{hylidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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