Nymphargus

Nymphargus
Nymphargus rosada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Centrolenidae
Subfamily: Centroleninae
Genus: Nymphargus
Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid, 2007
Species

36 species

Nymphargus is a relatively newly established (2007) genus of glass frogs in subfamily Centroleninae. They are distributed in the Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.[1] They are characterized by lacking webbing among the outer fingers, lacking humeral spines in adult males, and having a lobed liver covered by a transparent hepatic peritoneum.[2]

Species

Most species have been recently moved here from Cochranella.[2] As of 2014, the genus contains 36 species:[1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Frost, 2014
  2. 1 2 Cisneros-Heredia & McDiarmid (2007)
  3. Hutter & Guayasamin (2012)

References


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