Biology:Anomaloglossus
| Anomaloglossus | |
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| Anomaloglossus beebei | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Aromobatidae |
| Subfamily: | Anomaloglossinae |
| Genus: | Anomaloglossus |
| Type species | |
| Colostethus beebei Noble, 1923
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| Species | |
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30 species (see text) | |
Anomaloglossus is a genus of frogs in the family Aromobatidae.[1][2][3] The genus is endemic to the Guiana Shield in northern South America.[1][3] It used to be placed in the family Dendrobatidae (together with other genera in the current Aromobatidae[4][5]), and is still placed in that family by some sources.[6] The name of the genus, from the Greek anomalos (=irregular, unusual) and glossa (=tongue), refers to the unusual tongue bearing the median lingual process, the only unambiguous phenotypic synapomorphy of this genus.[4]
Description
Anomaloglossus are characterized by cryptic dorsal coloration (brown or gray). Dorsal skin is posteriorly granular. The toes are webbed, ranging from basal to extensive. The fingers have weakly expanded discs.[4] Many species show large intraspecific morphological variability and lack of morphological characters that would allow easy species identification.[3]
The tadpoles can be either exotrophic or endotrophic.[3]
Species
The following 30 species are recognised in the genus Anomaloglossus:[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatoidea/Aromobatidae/Anomaloglossinae/Anomaloglossus.
- ↑ "Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=773224.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Vacher, Jean-Pierre; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Lima, Jucivaldo Dias; Lorenzini, Andy; Martinez, Quentin; Fallet, Manon; Courtois, Elodie A. et al. (2017). "Cryptic diversity in Amazonian frogs: Integrative taxonomy of the genus Anomaloglossus (Amphibia: Anura: Aromobatidae) reveals a unique case of diversification within the Guiana Shield". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 112: 158–173. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.017. PMID 28438699.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Grant, Taran; Frost, Darrel R.; Caldwell, Janalee P.; Gagliardo, Ron; Haddad, Célio F.B.; Kok, Philippe J.R.; Means, D. Bruce; Noonan, Brice P. et al. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1–262. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2006)299[1:PSODFA2.0.CO;2]. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5803/1/B299.pdf.
- ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatoidea/Aromobatidae.
- ↑ "Dendrobatidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. http://www.amphibiaweb.org/lists/Dendrobatidae.shtml.
- ↑ Kok, Philippe J.R.; Nicolaï, Michaël P.J.; Lathrop, Amy; MacCulloch, Ross D. (2018). "Anomaloglossus meansi sp. n., a new Pantepui species of the Anomaloglossus beebei group (Anura, Aromobatidae)". ZooKeys (759): 99–116. doi:10.3897/zookeys.759.24742. PMID 29861648.
Wikidata ☰ Q2613882 entry
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