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Arthroleptella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Cacosterninae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Pyxicephalidae

Scientific name
  
Arthroleptella

Higher classification
  
Petropedetidae

Order
  
Frog

Lower classifications
  
Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis

Arthroleptella rugosa


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.

Contents

It contains the following species:

  • 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):

  • Arthroleptella hewitti → Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) – Hewitt's moss frog
  • Arthroleptella ngongoniensis → Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop and Passmore, 1993) – Ngoni moss frog

    • Arthroleptella villiersi


    References

    Arthroleptella Wikipedia
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