Arthroleptella
| Arthroleptella | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Pyxicephalidae |
| Subfamily: | Cacosterninae |
| Genus: | Arthroleptella |
| Species | |
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Arthroleptella is a genus of frog in the Pyxicephalidae family. Frogs in this genus are known as moss frogs. The seven species of this genus are endemic to South Africa.
It contains the following species:[1]
- Arthroleptella bicolor Hewitt, 1926 – Bainskloof moss frog
- Arthroleptella drewesii Channing, Hendricks and Dawood, 1994 – Drewes' moss frog
- Arthroleptella landdrosia Dawood and Channing, 2000 – Landdros moss frog
- Arthroleptella lightfooti (Boulenger, 1910) – Lightfoot's moss frog
- Arthroleptella rugosa Turner and Channing, 2008 – Rough moss frog
- Arthroleptella subvoce Turner, de Villiers, Dawood and Channing, 2004 – Northern moss frog
- Arthroleptella villiersi Hewitt, 1935 – De Villiers' moss frog
Two other species were formerly classified as Arthroleptella before recently found to belong to the formerly monotypic genus Anhydrophryne (Dawood and Stam 2006):[2][3]
- Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
- Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog
References
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Arthroleptella Hewitt, 1926". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ "Anhydrophryne hewitti". The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ↑ "Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis". The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
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