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Batrachylodes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Anura

Scientific name
  
Batrachylodes

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Ceratobatrachidae

Higher classification
  
True frog

Lower classifications
  
Cornufer elegans

Batrachylodes is a genus of frogs. The genus is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago, but includes species occurring in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands, an independent state. These frogs are sometimes known with the common name sticky-toed frogs.

Species

There are eight species in this genus:

  • Batrachylodes elegans Brown & Parker, 1970
  • Batrachylodes gigas Brown & Parker, 1970
  • Batrachylodes mediodiscus Brown & Parker, 1970
  • Batrachylodes minutus Brown & Parker, 1970
  • Batrachylodes montanus Brown & Parker, 1970
  • Batrachylodes trossulus Brown & Myers, 1949
  • Batrachylodes vertebralis Boulenger, 1887
  • Batrachylodes wolfi (Sternfeld, 1920)
  • References

    Batrachylodes Wikipedia