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Petropedetes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Petropedetes

Higher classification
  
Petropedetidae

Order
  
Frog

Family
  
Petropedetidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

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Lower classifications
  
Petropedetes natator, Du Toit's torrent frog, Usambara torrent frog, Southern torrent frog, Petropedetes cameronensis

Petropedetes is a genus of frogs in the family Petropedetidae. In 2002, the genus absorbed all three species of the former Arthroleptides genus, but they were reinstated in 2014. The informally assigned common name for frogs in this genus (and for frogs in certain other genera) is torrent frog.

The genus Petropedetes contains these species:

  • Petropedetes cameronensis (Reichenow, 1874) –
  • Petropedetes dutoiti ↔ Arthroleptides dutoiti (Loveridge, 1935) – Du Toit's torrent frog
  • Petropedetes euskircheni (Barej et al., 2010)
  • Petropedetes johnstoni (Boulenger, 1888)
  • Petropedetes juliawurstnerae (Barej et al., 2010)
  • Petropedetes martiensseni ↔ Arthroleptides martiensseni (Nieden, 1911) – Usambara torrent frog
  • Petropedetes natator (Boulenger, 1905)
  • Petropedetes newtoni (Bocage, 1895) – Barej et al. (2010) considers P. darwinii occurring in Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) a synonym of P. johnstoni.* Petropedetes palmipes (Boulenger, 1905)
  • Petropedetes parkeri (Amiet, 1983)
  • Petropedetes perreti (Amiet, 1973)
  • Petropedetes vulpiae (Barej et al., 2010)
  • Petropedetes yakusini ↔ Arthroleptides yakusini (Channing, Moyer and Howell, 2002)

    • References

    Petropedetes Wikipedia
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