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Austrochaperina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Asterophryinae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Microhylidae

Scientific name
  
Austrochaperina

Higher classification
  
Genyophryninae

Order
  
Frog

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Lower classifications
  
Fry's frog, Robust frog

Austrochaperina is a genus of microhylid frogs found on New Guinea, New Britain and Australia.

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Taxonomy

The genus was removed from the synonymy of Sphenophryne by Richard Zweifel in 2000. However, as currently defined, it might not be monophyletic, with two monophyletic units of Austrochaperina more closely related to parts of Copiula than with each other.

Description

Austrochaperina are rather generalized frogs in their morphology and appear mostly to inhabit leaf litter. They reach maximum sizes between 20 and 50 mm (0.79 and 1.97 in) snout–vent length. Finger and toe tips are flattened and disc-like. Most species lack toe webbing.

Species

There are at present 24 species in this genus:

The AmphibiaWeb includes a few additional species that Peloso and colleagues moved to Copiula in 2016.

References

Austrochaperina Wikipedia