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Atelognathus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Atelognathus

Higher classification
  
Telmatobiinae

Order
  
Frog

Family
  
Batrachylidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Lower classifications
  
Atelognathus patagonicus

Atelognathus is a genus of frogs in the Batrachylidae family. Sometimes known as the Patagonia frogs, these frogs are endemic to Patagonia (southernmost Argentina and Chile).

Species

There are seven species in the genus:

  • Atelognathus ceii Basso, 1998
  • Atelognathus nitoi (Barrio, 1973)
  • Atelognathus patagonicus (Gallardo, 1962)
  • Atelognathus praebasalticus (Cei and Roig, 1968)
  • Atelognathus reverberii (Cei, 1969)
  • Atelognathus salai Cei, 1984
  • Atelognathus solitarius (Cei, 1970)
  • Chaltenobatrachus grandisonae used to be included in this genus (as Atelognathus grandisonae), before being moved to its own monotypic genus.

    References

    Atelognathus Wikipedia