''Barycholos'', common name Chimbo frogs, is a genus of small

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

Strabomantidae The Strabomantidae are a family of frogs native to South America. These frogs lack a free-living larval stage and hatch directly into miniature "froglets". This family includes ''Pristimantis'', the most speciose genus of any vertebrate. System ...

found in south-eastern Brazil and tropical lowland Ecuador. The name ''Barycholos'', from the Greek ' ("savage"), is in honor of herpetologist

Jay M. Savage Jay Mathers Savage (born August 1928 in Santa Monica, California) is an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America. He is a past president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists ...

Species

There are two species: * '' Barycholos pulcher'' (Boulenger, 1898) * ''

Barycholos ternetzi ''Barycholos ternetzi'' is a species of frog in the family Strabomantidae. It is endemic to the Cerrado of central Brazil. Its natural habitats are gallery forest and open areas in the Cerrado. It lives in the leaf-litter. This common species is ...

'' (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)

References

Strabomantidae Amphibians of South America Amphibian genera {{Strabomantidae-stub