''Atelognathus'' is a genus of

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-f ...

s in the family

Batrachylidae Batrachylidae is a family of frogs from southern South America (Argentina and Chile). Before being recognized as a family, Batrachylidae was included as a subfamily (Batrachylinae) in the family Ceratophryidae; this is the taxonomy still suggest ...

. Sometimes known as Patagonia frogs, these frogs are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Patagonia Patagonia () refers to a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and gl ...

(southernmost

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

and

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

Species

There are seven species in the genus: * '' Atelognathus nitoi'' (Barrio, 1973) * '' Atelognathus patagonicus'' (Gallardo, 1962) * '' Atelognathus praebasalticus'' (Cei and Roig, 1968) * '' Atelognathus reverberii'' (Cei, 1969) * '' Atelognathus solitarius'' (Cei, 1970) Formerly, '' Chaltenobatrachus grandisonae'' was also included in this genus (as ''Atelognathus grandisonae''), before being moved to its own

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus.

References

Amphibians of South America Batrachylidae Fauna of Patagonia {{hyloidea-stub