Physalaemus
| Physalaemus | |
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| Physalaemus gracilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Leptodactylidae |
| Subfamily: | Leiuperinae |
| Genus: | Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger, 1826
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| Diversity | |
| About 48 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Physalaemus is a large genus of leptodactylid frogs. These frogs, sometimes known as dwarf frogs or foam frogs, are found in South America.[1] It is very similar to Leptodactylus, a close relative, and indeed the recently rescribed is in some aspects intermediate between them.[2]
Species[]
There are 50[1] or 49 species (AmphibiaWeb lists Physalaemus nattereri as Eupemphix nattereri ):[3]
- Physalaemus aguirrei Bokermann, 1966
- Physalaemus albifrons (Spix, 1824)
- Physalaemus albonotatus (Steindachner, 1864)
- Weber, Gonzaga, and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2005
- Leal, Zornosa-Torres, Augusto-Alves, Dena, Pezzuti, Leite, Lourenço, Garcia, and Toledo, 2021
- Brasileiro and Haddad, 2015
- Physalaemus atlanticus Haddad and Sazima, 2004
- Physalaemus barrioi Bokermann, 1967
- Physalaemus biligonigerus (Cope, 1861)
- Physalaemus bokermanni Cardoso and Haddad, 1985
- Physalaemus caete Pombal and Madureira, 1997
- Pimenta, Cruz & Silvano, 2005
- Cardozo and Pereyra, 2018
- Physalaemus centralis Bokermann, 1962
- Physalaemus cicada Bokermann, 1966
- Leal, Leite, Costa, Nascimento, Lourenço, and Garcia, 2020
- Physalaemus crombiei Heyer and Wolf, 1989
- Physalaemus cuqui Lobo, 1993
- Physalaemus cuvieri Fitzinger, 1826
- Physalaemus deimaticus Sazima and Caramaschi, 1988
- Physalaemus ephippifer (Steindachner, 1864)
- Physalaemus erikae Cruz and Pimenta, 2004
- Physalaemus erythros Caramaschi, Feio, and Guimarães, 2003
- Physalaemus evangelistai Bokermann, 1967
- Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010
- Physalaemus fernandezae (Müller, 1926)
- (Boulenger, 1890)
- Physalaemus gracilis (Boulenger, 1883)
- Physalaemus henselii (Peters, 1872)
- Physalaemus insperatus Cruz, Cassini, and Caramaschi, 2008
- Cruz, Nascimento, and Feio, 2007
- Physalaemus jordanensis Bokermann, 1967
- Physalaemus kroyeri (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
- (Steindachner, 1864)
- Physalaemus lisei Braun and Braun, 1977
- Physalaemus maculiventris (Lutz, 1925)
- (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)
- Physalaemus maximus Feio, Pombal, and Caramaschi, 1999
- Physalaemus moreirae (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937)
- Physalaemus nanus (Boulenger, 1888)
- Physalaemus nattereri (Steindachner, 1863)
- Physalaemus obtectus Bokermann, 1966
- Physalaemus olfersii (Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856)
- Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010
- Physalaemus riograndensis Milstead, 1960
- Physalaemus rupestris Caramaschi, Carcerelli, and Feio, 1991
- Physalaemus santafecinus Barrio, 1965
- Physalaemus signifer (Girard, 1853)
- Physalaemus soaresi Izecksohn, 1965
- Physalaemus spiniger (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)
References[]
- ^ a b Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Physalaemus Fitzinger, 1826". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Heyer, W. Ronald & Crombie, Ronald I. (2005): Leptodactylus lauramiriamae, a distinctive new species of frog (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Rondônia, Brazil. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(3): 590–595. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2005)118[590:LLADNS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
- ^ "Leptodactylidae". AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. Berkeley, California: AmphibiaWeb. 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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