Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Gastrophryninae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | Family Microhylidae Scientific name Chiasmocleis Higher classification Microhylinae Order Frog | |
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Lower classifications Chiasmocleis albopunctata, Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata, Syncope bassleri, Chiasmocleis carvalhoi, Chiasmocleis leucosticta | ||
Santa cecilia humming frog chiasmocleis anatipes
Chiasmocleis is a genus of microhylid frogs. They are found in tropical South America (north and east of the Andes) as well as in southern Central America, in Panama. Their common name is humming frogs.
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The genus, as defined earlier, was found to be polyphyletic. To remedy this, some species have been transferred to Elachistocleis and Syncope.
Species
There are 20 species in this genus:
References
Chiasmocleis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA