Aparasphenodon

Aparasphenodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Hylidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Aparasphenodon; Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920
Type species
	Aparasphenodon brunoi; Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920
Species
	5 species (see text)

Aparasphenodon is a genus of frogs in the family Hylidae. The genus is found in southeastern Brazil as well as in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.^[1]^[2] These are tree-dwelling species usually hiding in the cisterns of epiphytic bromeliads. The top of the head carries a bony plate which is fused with the skin.

Species[]

The genus is composed of five species:^[1]^[3]

Binomial Name and Author	Common Name
Aparasphenodon arapapa Pimenta, Napoli & Haddad, 2009
Aparasphenodon bokermanni Pombal, 1993	Bokermann's casque-headed frog
Aparasphenodon brunoi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920	Bruno's casque-headed frog
Assis, Santana, Silva, Quintela, and Feio, 2013
Aparasphenodon venezolanus (Mertens, 1950)	Venezuela casque-headed frog

References[]

^ ^a ^b Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
^ Assis, C. L.; Santana, D. J.; da Silva, F. A.; Quintela, F. M.; Feio, R. N. (25 September 2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3716 (4): 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793.
^ "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

Trueb, L. (1970b): The evolutionary relationships of casque-headed treefrogs with co-ossified skulls (family Hylidae). - Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18, pp. [547-716]

External links[]

eol - Encyclopedia of Life taxon Aparasphenodon at http://www.eol.org.
ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database Taxon Aparasphenodon at https://web.archive.org/web/20160606043808/http://www.itis.gov/index.html. (Accessed: Apr 24, 2008).
GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxon Aparasphenodon at https://web.archive.org/web/20080501142231/http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

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[Frost-1] Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 1 May 2017.

[Assis_et_al._2013-2] Assis, C. L.; Santana, D. J.; da Silva, F. A.; Quintela, F. M.; Feio, R. N. (25 September 2013). "A new and possibly critically endangered species of casque-headed tree frog Aparasphenodon Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Hylidae) from southeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 3716 (4): 583–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.6. PMID 26106793.

[AmphibiaWeb-3] "Hylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

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