Ptychadena
| Ptychadena | |
|---|---|
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| Ptychadena mascareniensis | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Ptychadenidae |
| Genus: | PtychadenaBoulenger, 1917 |
| Type species | |
| Rana mascareniensis Duméril and Bibron, 1841 | |
Ptychadena is a genus of frogs in the grassland frog family, Ptychadenidae.[1][2] They are distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as niloticEgypt. The common names of this genus are ridged frogs and grass frogs.[1] This type of family have many different characteristics such as the species, Ptychadena neumanni who have long hindlimbs and a large ear drum compared to the Ptychadena erlangeri, for example.[3] They also have a unique bone structure which is a fusion between the presacral vertebrae and sacrum.[4]
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Ptychadena :[5]
- Ptychadena aequiplicata(Werner, 1898)
- Ptychadena amharensis(Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
- Ptychadena anchietae(Bocage, 1868)
- Ptychadena ansorgii(Boulenger, 1905)
- Ptychadena arnei(Perret, 1997)
- Ptychadena baroensis(Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
- Ptychadena beka(Goutte et al, 2021)
- Ptychadena bibroni(Hallowell, 1845)
- Ptychadena boettgeri(Pfeffer, 1893)
- Ptychadena broadleyiStevens, 1972
- Ptychadena bunoderma(Boulenger, 1907)
- Ptychadena christyi(Boulenger, 1919)
- Ptychadena chrysogasterLaurent, 1954
- Ptychadena cooperi(Parker, 1930)
- Ptychadena doro(Goutte et al, 2021)
- Ptychadena delphina(Goutte et al, 2021)
- Ptychadena erlangeri(Ahl, 1924)
- Ptychadena gansiLaurent In Gans, Laurent & Pandit, 1965
- Ptychadena goweriSmith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
- Ptychadena grandisonaeLaurent, 1954
- Ptychadena guibeiLaurent, 1954
- Ptychadena harennaLargen, 1997
- Ptychadena hylaeaSchmidt and Inger, 1959
- Ptychadena ingeriPerret, 1991
- Ptychadena keilingi(Monard, 1937)
- Ptychadena levenorum(Smith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017)
- Ptychadena longirostris(Peters, 1870)
- Ptychadena mahnertiPerret, 1996
- Ptychadena mapachaChanning, 1993
- Ptychadena mascareniensis(Duméril & Bibron, 1841)
- Ptychadena mossambica(Peters, 1854)
- Ptychadena mutinondoensisChanning and Willem, 2018
- Ptychadena nana(Perret, 1980)
- Ptychadena neumanni(Ahl, 1924)
- Ptychadena newtoni(Bocage, 1886)
- Ptychadena nilotica(Seetzen, 1855)
- Ptychadena nuerensisSmith, Noonan, and Colston, 2017
- Ptychadena obscura(Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
- Ptychadena oxyrhynchus(Smith, 1849)
- Ptychadena perplicataLaurent, 1964
- Ptychadena perretiGuibé & Lamotte, 1958
- Ptychadena porosissima(Steindachner, 1867)
- Ptychadena pujoliLamotte & Ohler, 1997
- Ptychadena pumilio(Boulenger, 1920)
- Ptychadena retropunctata(Angel, 1949)
- Ptychadena robeensis(Goutte et al, 2021)
- Ptychadena schillukorum(Werner, 1908)
- Ptychadena stenocephala(Boulenger, 1901)
- Ptychadena straeleni(Inger, 1968)
- Ptychadena submascareniensis(Guibé & Lamotte, 1953)
- Ptychadena subpunctata(Bocage, 1866)
- Ptychadena superciliaris(Günther, 1858)
- Ptychadena taenioscelisLaurent, 1954
- Ptychadena tellinii(Peracca, 1904)
- Ptychadena tournieri(Guibé & Lamotte, 1955)
- Ptychadena trinodis(Boettger, 1881)
- Ptychadena upembae(Schmidt & Inger, 1959)
- Ptychadena uzungwensis(Loveridge, 1932)
- Ptychadena wadeiLargen, 2000
References
- ^ abFrost, Darrel R. (2014). "Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^"Ptychadena Boulenger, 1917". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^Goutte, Sandra; Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo; Freilich, Xenia; Kassie, Abeje; Boissinot, Stephane (2 November 2021). "Taxonomic revision of grass frogs (Ptychadenidae, Ptychadena) endemic to the Ethiopian highlands". ZooKeys (1016): 77–141. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1016.59699. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7892535. PMID 33628080.
- ^Blackburn, David C.; Roberts, Eric M.; Stevens, Nancy J. (4 March 2015). "The earliest record of the endemic African frog family Ptychadenidae from the Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2) e907174. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.907174. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 53369792.
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