''Nannophryne'' is a small genus of
true toad
A true toad is any member of the family Bufonidae, in the order Anura (frogs and toads). This is the only family of anurans in which all members are known as toads, although some may be called frogs (such as harlequin frogs). The bufonids now ...
s, family Bufonidae,
[ from South America. They are found in central Andean Peru south to southern Chile and adjacent Argentina.]
Taxonomy
The genus was placed in synonymy
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with ''Bufo
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'' by George Albert Boulenger
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in 1894,[ but it was resurrected in 2006 by ]Frost
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when splitting the then very large ''Bufo'' into smaller, monophyletic
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genera.subgenus
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of ''Bufo'', still has some following.[
]
Species
There are four species in this genus:[
* '' Nannophryne apolobambica'' (De la Riva, Ríos, and Aparicio, 2005)
* '' Nannophryne cophotis'' (Boulenger, 1900)
* '' Nannophryne corynetes'' (Duellman and Ochoa-M., 1991)
* '' Nannophryne variegata'' Günther, 1870
]
References
Amphibian genera
Amphibians of South America
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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