Oreophryne Ampelos
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''Oreophryne'', the cross frogs, is a genus of
microhylid The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family (biology), family of frogs. The 683 species are in 63 genera and 11 subfamilies, which is the largest number of genera of any frog family. Evolution ...
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 endemic to Southern
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, Celebes and the
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, and
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* . 2013. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.6 (9 January 2013)
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Electronic Database accessible a

American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: November 23, 2013). * eb application 2008. Berkeley, California
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AmphibiaWeb, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20040827082534/http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ (Accessed: June 14, 2008). * taxo
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at http://www.eol.org. * Taxo
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at https://web.archive.org/web/20160606043808/http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: June 14, 2008). Microhylidae Amphibian genera Taxa named by Oskar Boettger {{Microhylidae-stub